46 – Darʾ Taʿāruḍ al-ʿAql wa-al-Naql (Averting the Conflict between Reason and Revelation) by Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah.
The compiler drew enormous benefit from this work: he abridged it, refined it, and reorganised its material within the present volume, and he cherished it deeply. Hence he says in al-Kāfiyah al-Shāfiyah (p. 769):
Read the book on Reason and Revelation which—
1. …has no second equal to be found in all existence.
47 – Dīwān al-Akhtal (The Collected Poems of al-Akhtal).
48 – al-Daqāʾiq (The Subtleties) by Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ṭayyib al-Bāqillānī.
49 – al-Dhakhīrah al-Burhāniyyah by Imām Ibn Māzah. From it he quoted the statements of the Ḥanafī authorities on the question of divorce, referring to it simply as “al-Dhakhīrah,” without any qualifying epithet (1).
50 – Dhamm al-Kalām wa-Ahlihi (Censure of Kalām and Its Adherents) by Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Harawī.
51 – al-Radd ʿalā al-Jahmiyyah wa-al-Zanādiqah (Refutation of the Jahmiyyah and the Heretics) by Imām Aḥmad. The author cites it in several places and benefitted from it greatly.
52 – al-Radd ʿalā al-Jahmiyyah (Refutation of the Jahmiyyah) by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Ḥātim al-Rāzī.
53 – Radd ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd ʿalā Bishr al-Marīsī al-ʿAnīd (ʿUthmān ibn Saʿīd’s Refutation of the Obstinate Bishr al-Marīsī). Ibn al-Qayyim was especially devoted to this work of al-Dārimī—and to his other book, al-Radd ʿalā al-Jahmiyyah—so much so that he states in Ijtimāʿ al-Juyūsh al-Islāmiyyah (1/347-348): “His two books are among the most outstanding and beneficial works authored on the Sunnah. Every seeker of the Sunnah—whose aim is to know what the Companions, the Successors, and the leading Imams were upon—should read these two volumes. Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) used to recommend them most emphatically and held them in the highest regard, and in them…"