al-Nujūm (The Stars) one fascicle, Riwāyat al-Ṣaḥābah ʿan Tābiʿī (The Companions Narrating from a Successor) one fascicle, Ṣalāt al-Tasbīḥ (The Prayer of Glorification) one fascicle, Musnad of Nuʿaym ibn Ḥammād (1) one fascicle, al-Nahy ʿan Ṣawm Yawm al-Shakk (The Prohibition of Fasting on the Day of Doubt), Ijāzat al-Maʿdūm wa al-Majhūl (2) one fascicle, Mā fīhi Sittah Tābiʿiyyūn (3) one fascicle.
Ibn al-Najjār listed the titles of al-Khaṭīb’s compositions and further added: Muʿjam al-Ruwwāt ʿan Shuʿbah (Index of the Transmitters from Shuʿbah) eight fascicles, al-Muʾtalif wa al-Mukhtalif twenty-four fascicles, Ḥadīth Muḥammad ibn Sūqah four fascicles, al-Musalsalāt three fascicles, al-Rubāʿiyyāt three fascicles, Ṭuruq Qabḍ al-ʿIlm (Paths by Which Knowledge Is Acquired) three fascicles, Ghusl al-Jumuʿah (Bathing for Friday Prayer) three fascicles, al-Ijāzah li-l-Majhūl (4) (Authorization for the Unknown).
Abū’l-Ḥusayn the ḥāfiẓ recited to me; Jaʿfar ibn Munīr recited to us; and al-Silafī recited it for himself (5):
= 1949, edited by the late Yusuf al-Ish.
(1) The base manuscript clearly vocalises the name as “Hammad.” Dr. al-Umari, in Mawarid al-Khatib (p. 57), reads it “Hammar al-Ghatafani,” while Dr. al-Ish has “Hammaz al-Isani.” Further corroboration is required.
(2) Al-Muntazam records the title as “al-Ijaza li-l-ma‘dum wa-l-majhul”; in Mu‘jam al-Udaba the word li-l-ma‘dum was misprinted as li-l-ma‘lūm. The work was published in Majmu‘at Rasā’il fi ‘Ulum al-Hadith, ed. Subhi al-Badri al-Samarra’i, al-Maktaba al-Salafiyya, 1969.
(3) Both al-Muntazam and al-Irshad read: “Riwayat al-sitta min al-tabi‘in.” In each, the word al-sitta was mistakenly copied as al-sunna (with a nun).
(4) Al-Dhahabi lists further compositions in Tadhkirat al-Huffaz 3/1139–1140, and Ibn Khallikan states that he wrote nearly one hundred treatises (al-Wafayat 1/92). The late Yusuf al-Ish counted seventy-one works, indicating their locations and whether printed or manuscript, in al-Khatib al-Baghdadi: Historian and Hadith Scholar of Baghdad, pp. 120–134. Dr. al-Umari expanded the list to eighty-six titles and devoted a special chapter to them in his valuable Mawarid al-Khatib, pp. 55–84; see there.
(5) These verses are cited in Irshad al-Arib 4/33–34, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz 3/1140, and al-Subki’s Tabaqat 4/33.