Al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah (The Beginning and the End)
“From the caliphate of ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān and the deaths of 65 AH to the deaths of 100 AH”

Authored by the imam, ḥāfiẓ, and historian Abū al-Fidāʾ Ismāʿīl ibn Kathīr (701–774 AH)

Verified, the ḥadīths authenticated, and annotated by Muḥammad Ḥassān ʿUbayd

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

Volume Nine