Al-Bidāyah wa’l-Nihāyah
“The Rightly Guided Caliphs, 11–40 AH”

Authored by
the ḥāfiẓ and historian Imām Abū’l-Fidāʾ Ismāʿīl ibn Kathīr (701–774 AH)

Critically edited, with ḥadīth verification and annotations, by
Dr. Riyāḍ ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd Murād and Muḥammad Ḥassān ʿUbayd

Reviewed by
Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Arnaʿūṭ and Dr. Bashshār ʿAwwād Maʿrūf

Volume Seven