Al-Khaṭīb said: Masʿūd ibn Nāṣir al-Sijzī listed Ibn Ḥibbān’s writings, saying:
• Tārīkh al-Thiqāt (History of the Trustworthy);
• ʿIlal Awhām al-Muʾarrikhīn – one volume;
• ʿIlal Manāqib al-Zuhrī – twenty fascicles;
• ʿIlal Ḥadīth Mālik – ten fascicles;
• ʿIlal Mā Asnada Abū Ḥanīfah – ten fascicles;
• Mā Khālafa Fīhi Sufyān Shuʿbah – three fascicles;
• Mā Khālafa Fīhi Shuʿbah Sufyān – two fascicles;
• Mā Infarada Bihi Ahl al-Madīnah mina l-Sunan – one volume;
• Mā Infarada Bihi al-Makkīyūn – one volume;
• Mā Infarada Bihi Ahl al-ʿIrāq – one volume;
• Mā Infarada Bihi Ahl Khurāsān – one volume;
• Mā Infarada Bihi Ibn ʿArūbah ʿan Qatādah, or Shuʿbah ʿan Qatādah – one volume;
• Gharāʾib al-Akhbār – one volume;
• Gharāʾib al-Kūfiyyīn – ten fascicles;
• Gharāʾib Ahl al-Baṣrah – eight fascicles;
• al-Kunā – one volume;
• al-Faṣl wa-l-Waṣl – one volume;
• al-Faṣl bayna Ḥadīth Ashʿath ibn ʿAbd al-Malik wa-Ashʿath ibn Sawwār – two fascicles;
• Kitāb Mawqūf Mā Rufiʿ – ten fascicles;
• Manāqib Mālik;
• Manāqib al-Shāfiʿī;
• Kitāb al-Muʿjam ʿalā l-Mudan – ten fascicles;
• al-Abwāb al-Mutafarriqah – three volumes;
• Anwāʿ al-ʿUlūm wa-Awṣāfuhā – three volumes;
• al-Hidāyah ilā ʿIlm al-Sunan – one volume;
• Qabūl al-Akhbār; and a number of other works. (1)
Masʿūd ibn Nāṣir added: Only a small portion of these compositions is still extant. Ibn Ḥibbān had endowed his books to a public library, but over the course of time they disappeared because governmental authority grew weak and corrupters took control.
Abū Ismāʿīl ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī, the author of the book Dhamm