Al-Jarḥ wa-al-Taʿdīl, by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim al-Rāzī. First edition, Majlis Dāʾirat al-Maʿārif al-ʿUthmāniyyah, India, 1371 AH.

Khulāṣat Tadhhīb Tahdhīb al-Kamāl, by Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Khazrajī al-Anṣārī. Second edition, 1391 AH.

Dhikr Akhbār Iṣbahān, by Abū Nuʿaym Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Iṣbahānī. Printed in Leiden at the Brill Press, 1934 CE; published by Muʾassasat al-Naṣr, Tehran.

Al-Dhayl ʿalā Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanābilah, by Abū al-Faraj ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Shihāb al-Dīn al-Ḥanbalī. Published by Dār al-Maʿrifah.

Zād al-Maʿād, by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah. Edited by Shuʿayb and ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Arnaʾūṭ; first edition, 1399 AH.

Al-Sīrah al-Nabawiyyah, by Ismāʿīl ibn Kathīr. Edited by Muṣṭafā ʿAbd al-Wāḥid; Dār al-Maʿrifah, Beirut.

Sīrat al-Nabī, peace and blessings be upon him, by ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Hishām. Edited by Muḥammad Muḥyī al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd; Madanī Press, 1383 AH.

Shadharāt al-Dhahab, by ʿAbd al-Ḥayy ibn al-ʿImād al-Ḥanbalī. Edition of al-Maktabah al-Tijāriyyah al-Kubrā, Beirut.

Al-Shifāʾ bi-Taʿrīf Ḥuqūq al-Muṣṭafā, by Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ ibn Mūsā al-Yaḥṣubī. Edition of Maktabat wa-Maṭbaʿat al-Mashhad al-Ḥusaynī.

Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanābilah, by Qāḍī Muḥammad ibn Abī Yaʿlā. Published by Dār al-Maʿrifah for Printing and Publishing.

Ṭabaqāt al-Fuqahāʾ, by Abū Isḥāq al-Shīrāzī al-Shāfiʿī. Edited by Iḥsān ʿAbbās; Dār al-Rāʾid al-ʿArabī, second edition, 1401 AH.

Al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kubrā, by Muḥammad ibn Saʿd. Dār Ṣādir, Beirut.