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Al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr, by Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭabarānī. Edited by Ḥamdī ʿAbd al-Majīd; published by the Iraqi Ministry of Awqāf, printed by al-Dār al-ʿArabiyyah li-l-Ṭibāʿah, Baghdad.
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Al-Mustadrak ʿalā al-Ṣaḥīḥayn, with al-Dhahabī’s marginal summary al-Talkhīṣ, by Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim. Islamic Publications Library, Aleppo.
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The Musnad of Imām Aḥmad, with Muntakhab Kanz al-ʿUmmāl on the margins, by Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal al-Shaybānī. Al-Maktab al-Islāmī and Dār Ṣādir.
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Al-Muṣannaf, by ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn Hammām al-Ṣanʿānī. Edited by Ḥabīb al-Raḥmān al-Aʿẓamī, first edition, 1392 AH.
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Al-Muṣannaf, by ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Shaybah. Supervised by ʿAbd al-Khāliq Afghānī, 1387 AH edition.
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Al-Maqāṣid al-Ḥasanah, by Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sakhāwī. First edition, 1399 AH, Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyyah – Lebanon.
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Al-Manār al-Munīf fī al-Ṣaḥīḥ wa-al-Ḍaʿīf, by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah. Edited by ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ Abū Ghuddah; published by Maktabat al-Maṭbūʿāt al-Islāmiyyah, Aleppo, first edition, 1390 AH.
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Al-Muwaṭṭaʾ, by Mālik ibn Anas; verified and numbered by Muḥammad Fuʾād ʿAbd al-Bāqī. Dār Iḥyāʾ al-Turāth al-ʿArabī edition.
(4) Works on narrator evaluation, biographical dictionaries, Sīrah, and history:
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Usd al-Ghābah fī Maʿrifat al-Ṣaḥābah, by ʿAlī ibn Abī al-Karam Ibn al-Athīr. Published by al-Maktabah al-Islāmiyyah (Ḥājj Riyāḍ al-Shaykh).
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Al-Iṣābah fī Tamyīz al-Ṣaḥābah, with Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr’s al-Istiʿāb on the margins, by Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī. Facsimile of the first edition (1328 AH), Dār Ṣādir.
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Al-Aʿlām, by Khayr al-Dīn al-Ziriklī. Fourth edition, 1979 CE, Dār al-ʿIlm li-l-Malāyīn.