Other sources used in this volume include:

• “Maghāzī al-Umawī” (3/ 240). The author also quoted reports concerning military campaigns and the Prophet’s biography from “Al-Amwāl” by Abū ‘Ubayd (3/ 183) and “Ma‘rifat al-Sahāba” by Abū Nu‘aym (3/ 313, 848).

• Among works of Quranic commentary: “Zād al-Masīr” by Ibn al-Jawzī, from which he quoted in several places (3/ 207, 259, 367) without explicitly identifying his source. In one passage (3/ 9), the author quoted either from “Al-Kashf wa-l-Bayān” by al-Tha‘labī or from its abridgment, “Ma‘ālim al-Tanzīl” by al-Baghawī. The latter possibility seems more likely, since he explicitly acknowledged quoting from it in the fourth volume (4/ 589).

• Among works on the Sunnah: the books entitled “Al-Sunna” by Ibn Abī ‘Āsim, ‘Abd Allāh ibn Ahmad, and Abū al-Shaykh al-Asbahānī, and “Al-Ma‘rifa” by Abū Ahmad al-‘Assāl (3/ 857–858). He mentioned all of these when documenting the sources of the lengthy hadith of Laqīt ibn ‘Āmir.

• Among works of jurisprudence: “Al-Mughnī,” from which he frequently quoted differences of juristic opinion without explicitly naming it, except in one passage (3/ 554), where he wished to mention its author’s preferred view and said, “The author of Al-Mughnī said.” Elsewhere (3/ 834), he named the author but not the book, warmly praising him for his preferred view on the question of stray sheep and goats. Other works of jurisprudence he mentioned include “Al-Wasīt” by al-Ghazālī (3/ 525), “Al-Khisāl” by Ibn al-Bannā’ al-Hanbalī (3/ 553), and “Al-Mabsūt” by al-Shāfi‘ī (3/ 764), although the passage he quoted from the last concerns a matter of creed.

• “Kashf al-Mushkil min Hadīth al-Sahīhayn,” from which he quoted in one passage (3/ 727), naming its author but not the book. It appears that he also quoted from it elsewhere (3/ 311–312) without explicitly identifying his source.