Al-Muʿjam al-Saghīr: in the section on the names of its teachers, first printed in 1311 AH under the supervision of Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Majīd at al-Anṣār Press (Delhi), then frequently reissued. Al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Ṭabarānī (d. ca. 360 AH) included in his Muʿjams numerous hadiths on the divine attributes (ṣifāt). For example: – Al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr, vol. 2/139, hadith 1566, pp. 331–335; hadiths 2224–2237; vol. 3/43, hadith 2255. – Al-Muʿjam al-Awsat, vol. 1/385, hadith 671; p. 433, hadith 777; p. 507, hadith 935; p. 528, hadith 994; vol. 2/285, hadith 1500, p. 307; hadith 1535, p. 335; hadith 1582, p. 514; hadith 1884. – Al-Muʿjam al-Saghīr, vol. 1/32, 235, 257; vol. 2/21, 53, 116. See: C. Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, 3: 225; and F. Sezgin’s notes on these Muʿjams, their abridgments and manuscripts in Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums—ʿUlūm al-Qurʾān wa’l-Ḥadīth, 1 (1): 393–395. For later translations and commentaries cf. Ibn ʿAsākir, Tahdhīb, 6: 242–244; Ibn Khallikan, Wafayāt al-Aʿyān, 2: 407; al-Dhahabī, Mīzān al-Iʿtidāl, 2: 195; Ibn ʿImād, Shadharāt al-Dhahab, 3: 30; al-Zarkalī, al-Aʿlām, 3: 181. (1) He is Abū Ḥātim Muḥammad b. Ḥibbān b. Aḥmad b. Ḥibbān al-Tamīmī al-Ḥanzalī al-Bustī, one of the principal repositories of knowledge and a celebrated ḥāfiẓ of his era. Born 270 AH, died 354 AH, he authored many works, notably his Ṣaḥīḥ, which was edited by Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Balbān al-Fārisī (d. 739 AH) and annotated by Ibn Abī Bakr b. Ḥajar al-Haythamī (d. 805 AH). His Ṣaḥīḥ includes numerous hadiths on the attributes; see, for example, al-Iḥsān bi-Tartīb Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān by Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Balbān: vol. 1, pp. 241–244 (chapter on the attributes, hadiths 265–270); vol. 8, p. 128, hadith 6430, p. 129; hadith 6431, p. 134; hadith 6442. Cf. also al-Dhahabī, Tadhkirat al-Ḥuffāẓ, 3: 920–923; Ibn Ḥajar, Lisān al-Mīzān, 5: 112–115; Ibn ʿImād, Shadharāt al-Dhahab, 3: 16; Ḥājjī Khalīfa, Kashf al-Ẓunūn, 2: 1075; al-Zarkalī, al-Aʿlām, 6: 306; and Tārīkh.