Al-ʿAqīdah wa’l-Madhāhib al-Muʿāṣirah, College of Usūl al-Dīn, Riyadh (Imam Muḥammad ibn Saʿūd Islamic University), printed in 1408 AH in two volumes. See: al-Jarḥ wa’l-Taʿdīl by Ibn Abī Ḥātim, 3/2:196; Tadhkirat al-Ḥuffāẓ by al-Dhahabī, 2:720–731; Ṭabaqāt al-Shāfiʿiyyah by al-Subkī, 3:109–119; Shadharāt al-Dhahab by Ibn al-ʿImād, 2:262–263. (1) Abu Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr ibn al-Nabīl, known as Abū ʿĀṣim al-Ḍaḥḥāk al-Shaybānī, the great muhaddith and qāḍī of Isfahan. He authored numerous works, notably al-Musnad and Kitāb al-Sunnah on the ḥadīth of divine attributes. Born 206 AH; died 287 AH. See: Tadhkirat al-Ḥuffāẓ by al-Dhahabī, 2:640–641; al-Bidāya wa’l-Nihāya by Ibn Kathīr, 11:95; Kashf al-Zunūn by Ḥājjī Khalīfa, 2:1425; Shadharāt al-Dhahab by Ibn al-ʿImād, 2:195; al-Aʿlām by al-Zarkalī, 1:181–182. (2) Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥakam ibn Muʿabbad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUbayd al-Khuẓāʿī al-Ḥanafī, jurist and muhaddith of Isfahan; author of Kitāb al-Sunnah. Died 295 AH. See: Kashf al-Zunūn by Ḥājjī Khalīfa, 2:1425; Shadharāt al-Dhahab by Ibn al-ʿImād, 2:218; Muʿjam al-Muʾallifīn by al-Kaḥḥāla, 4:71. (3) His biography was given above, with some of his works listed (p. 162). (4) His biography was given above, with some of his works listed (p. 143). (5) Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar ibn Ḥayān al-Anṣārī al-Isfahānī, a master of ḥadīth and author on fiqh and tafsīr, known as Abū al-Shaykh. His works include al-Tārīkh ʿalā al-Sunan; Kitāb al-Thawāb; ʿIẓmat Allāh wa-Makhluqātihi; Kitāb al-Sunnah, among others. Born 274 AH; died 369 AH. See: Tadhkirat al-Ḥuffāẓ by al-Dhahabī, 3:945–947; Kashf al-Zunūn by Ḥājjī Khalīfa, 2:1406–1407; Hadiyyat al-ʿĀrifīn by al-Baghdādī, 1:447; al-Aʿlām by al-Zarkalī, 4:264; Muʿjam al-Muʾallifīn by al-Kaḥḥāla, 6:114.