Al-Bidāyah wa’l-Nihāyah
Stories of the Prophets – Accounts of Earlier Peoples

Authored by
The Imām, ḥadīth master, and historian Abū al-Fidāʾ Ismāʿīl ibn Kathīr
(701–774 AH)

Critically edited, with ḥadīth grading and annotations, by
Dr. ʿAlī Abū Zayd Abū Zayd

Reviewed by
Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Arnāʾūṭ – Dr. Bashshār ʿAwwād Maʿrūf

Volume Two