elsewhere. He also used “al-Sunan wa-l-Ahkām” by al-Diyāʾ al-Maqdisī, without referring to it explicitly, and “Maʿrifat ʿUlūm al-Hadīth” by al-Hākim (1/ 606–607), naming its author. His sources also include “al-Jāmiʿ” by Abū Yaʿlā, alongside which he referred to “Tajrīd al-Sihāh” by Razīn and “Nawādir al-Usūl” by al-Tirmidhī al-Hakīm, naming all three works (1/ 628).

• Among the sources from which he appears to have quoted are “al-Mutarjam” by al-Jūzajānī (1/ 223) and “Tafsīr al-Qurtubī” (1/ 629, 630).
• His oral sources include accounts he related from his teacher, Shaykh al-Islām; his teacher Abū al-Hajjāj al-Mizzī (1/ 544); and his associate Muhammad ibn ʿUthmān al-Khalīlī, the hadith scholar in Jerusalem (1/ 66).

• Sources for the second volume include:

• “Hujjat al-Mustafā” by Muhibb al-Tabarī (2/ 203, 204, 366—where he calls it “Hujjat al-Wadāʿ”—2/ 369, 370).
• In this volume, he quoted extensively from “Hujjat al-Wadāʿ” (1) by Ibn Hazm, either approvingly or for purposes of rebuttal and discussion.
• “Darʾ al-Lawm wa-l-Daym ʿan Sawm Yawm al-Ghaym” by Ibn al-Jawzī, on which he relied in his discussion of fasting on a cloudy day (2/ 52–56).
• Among hadith works, he quoted Ibn Ayman al-Andalusī’s “al-Sunan” (2/ 396), al-Diyāʾ al-Maqdisī’s “al-Sunan wa-l-Ahkām” (2/ 327), ʿAbd al-Haqq’s “al-Ahkām” (2/ 97, 392), and Ibn al-Qattān al-Fāsī’s “Bayān al-Wahm wa-l-Īhām” (2/ 97, 335). Among hadith commentaries, he quoted al-Qādī ʿIyād’s “Sharh Muslim” (2/ 363). Among works on hadith defects and narrators, he quoted al-Tirmidhī’s “al-ʿIlal al-Kabīr” (2/ 457, 458), “al-Duʿafāʾ” by al-Dhahabī (2/ 163), and “al-Fāʾiq” by al-Zamakhsharī (2/ 393).
• Among works of jurisprudence, he quoted Sufyān al-Thawrī’s “al-Jāmiʿ” (2/ 376), “Mukhtasar al-Khiraqī” (2/ 330), the work of al-Khallāl (2/ 394), “al-Adhkār” by al-Nawawī (2/ 516), “al-Kitāb al-Kabīr” by al-Shāfiʿī (2/ 494), “al-Mufīd” by Tāj al-Dīn al-Kardarī (2/ 295), and “Jawāmiʿ al-Fiqh” by Abū Yūsuf (2/ 295).
• He also presented a brief section from Ibn Taymiyya’s discussion maintaining that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, combined Hajj and ʿumrah in his pilgrimage (2/ 144–149).

• Sources for the third volume, which is devoted to biographical accounts and military campaigns:

In recounting the military campaigns, the author relied on the following works:

1 - “Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwa” by al-Bayhaqī. The author relied extensively on this work throughout the volume, quoting through it from the accounts of military campaigns by Mūsā ibn ʿUqba and those transmitted by Abū al-Aswad from ʿUrwa,