“Ibn Hazm said,” without explicitly naming the book (3/ 290, 311, 408). He sometimes alludes to him without naming him (3/ 154).

3 - “Al-Sīra al-Nabawiyya” by al-Dimyātī. The author drew on this work in several places in the first third of this volume. In six places, he referred to its author as “the hadith scholar ‘Abd al-Mu’min ibn Khalaf” (see the index of names). He also quoted from it without explicitly mentioning him (3/ 28, 31, 61, 65, 190–195, and elsewhere). Many of the quotations from Ibn Sa‘d were taken through al-Dimyātī’s book. He names him only when he wishes to take issue with him or to attribute to him material unique to his account that he had not found elsewhere. In one passage, the author followed him in an error, saying, “Al-Zuhrī said,” when the correct wording is, “Al-Wāqidī said” (3/ 25).

4 - “‘Uyūn al-Athar” by Ibn Sayyid al-Nās. The author relied extensively on this work in the second half of this volume. He named it when he first began drawing on it, saying at (3/ 471): “The hadith scholar Abū al-Fath Muhammad ibn Sayyid al-Nās informed us of it in his book ‘Uyūn al-Athar.” From then until the end of the volume, he quoted extensively from it: accounts of military campaigns, expeditions, delegations, and the Prophet’s correspondence, peace and blessings be upon him. These include reports transmitted by Ibn Ishāq and Ibn Sa‘d, as well as three passages from Ibn ‘Ā’idh’s accounts of the military campaigns, all quoted through this work. The sole exception is one passage (3/ 732), where he quotes a report whose wording agrees with Ibn Sa‘d’s account but does not appear in the same wording in Ibn Sayyid al-Nās’s work. He may therefore have quoted it directly from “Al-Tabaqāt,” or through another source that we have been unable to identify.

In one passage (3/ 824), he quoted from “Al-Iktifā’” by Abū al-Rabī‘ ibn Sālim al-Kalā‘ī (d. 634 AH). This quotation too was taken through Ibn Sayyid al-Nās’s book, as comparison and collation show.