Among Abū al-Qāsim’s authored works are:
• al-Sunnah, one volume;
• al-Duʿāʾ, one volume;
• al-Tawālāt, one volume;
• the large Musnad of Shuʿbah;
• the Musnad of Sufyān;
• Masānīd al-Shāmiyyīn;
• an exceedingly large tafsīr;
• al-Awāʾil;
• al-Ramy;
• al-Manāsik;
• al-Nawādir;
• Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwah, one volume;
• ʿIshrat al-Nisāʾ;
• and other titles that have not reached us, among them: the Musnad of ʿĀʾishah, the Musnad of Abū Hurayrah, the Musnad of Abū Dharr, Maʿrifat al-Ṣaḥābah, al-ʿIlm, al-Ruʾyah, Faḍl al-ʿArab, al-Jūd, al-Farāʾiḍ, Manāqib Aḥmad, Kitāb al-Ashribah, Kitāb al-Alwiyah on the caliphates of Abū Bakr and ʿUmar, and other works besides. Al-ḥāfiẓ Yaḥyā ibn Mandah listed them one after another.
Most of these books are musnads devoted to leading ḥadith masters and eminent figures, but we have not seen them ourselves.
Al-Ṭabarānī’s narrations have continued to circulate, fetching a good price and remaining keenly sought—especially in the time of their custodian Ibn Rīdhah. Multitudes heard them from him, and al-Salafī transcribed them from roughly one hundred transmitters drawn from that circle and from the students of Ibn Fādhshāh. Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī and Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Hamadhānī likewise copied them from several of those who still survived.
When the last of those transmitters, Fāṭimah al-Juzdāniyyah, died in 524 AH, the people flocked to her. Ibn Khalīl, al-Ḍiyāʾ, the sons of the ḥadith scholar ʿAbd al-Ghanī, and many other traditionists travelled in pursuit of al-Ṭabarānī’s ḥadith. They obtained ijāzahs from the remaining shaykhs on behalf of their relatives and juniors, carried the collection back to Syria, narrated it, and spread it. Later it was heard, with a very elevated licence, by Ibn Jawʿān, al-Ḥārithī, al-Mizzī, Ibn Sāmah, al-Barzālī, and their peers, who continued to transmit it in this age. The highest portion that still survives with an unbroken chain is his Muʿjam al-Ṣaghīr—so do not let it elude you, may Allah have mercy on you!
Al-Ṭabarānī lived one hundred years and ten months.
Al-ḥadith master Abū Nuʿaym said: “Al-Ṭabarānī passed away two nights before the end of Dhū al-Qaʿdah, in the year …”