[B – The Revealed Scriptures]
1 – A translation of the Torah.
2 – A translation of the Gospel.
Ibn Kathīr did not treat these versions as primary sources for his narratives; he cited them only to demonstrate the alterations and distortions that had crept into them.
[C – Ḥadīth Collections and Works on Transmitters]
1 – al-Muwaṭṭaʾ by Imām Mālik (d. 179 AH).
2 – the Musnad of Imām Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal (d. 241 AH).
3 – the Ṣaḥīḥ of Imām al-Bukhārī (d. 256 AH).
4 – the Ṣaḥīḥ of Imām Muslim (d. 261 AH).
5 – al-Mustadrak by al-Ḥākim (d. 405 AH).
6 – the Ṣaḥīḥ of Ibn Khuzaymah (d. 311 AH).
7 – Sunan Abī Dāwūd (d. 275 AH).
8 – Sunan Ibn Mājah (d. 273 AH).
9 – Sunan al-Nasāʾī (d. 303 AH).
10 – Sunan al-Dāraquṭnī (d. 385 AH).
11 – al-Jāmiʿ al-Kabīr by al-Tirmidhī (d. 279 AH).
12 – the Musnad of Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī (d. 204 AH).
13 – the Musnad of Imām al-Shāfiʿī (d. 204 AH).
14 – the Musnad of Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī (d. 307 AH).
15 – the Muṣannaf of Ibn Abī Shaybah (d. 235 AH).
16 – al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr of al-Ṭabarānī (d. 360 AH).
17 – Maʿjam al-Ṣaḥābah by al-Baghawī (d. 317 AH).
18 – al-Kāmil by Ibn ʿAdī (d. 365 AH).
19 – Usd al-Ghābah by Ibn al-Athīr (d. 630 AH).
20 – al-Istīʿāb by Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr (d. 463 AH).
21 – Sharḥ Mushkil al-Āthār by al-Ṭaḥāwī (d. 321 AH).
22 – al-Mawḍūʿāt by Ibn al-Jawzī (d. 597 AH).
23 – Tahdhīb al-Kamāl by Abū al-Ḥajjāj al-Mizzī (d. 742 AH).
24 – Mīzān al-Iʿtidāl by al-Dhahabī (d. 748 AH).
[D – Works on the Prophet’s Biography (Sīrah) and Military Expeditions (Maghāzī)]
1 – the Sīrah of Ibn Isḥāq (1) (d. 151 AH).
2 – the Maghāzī of Mūsā ibn ʿUqbah (d. 141 AH).
3 – the Sīrah of Ibn Hishām (d. 218 AH).
4 – al-Rawḍ al-Unuf by al-Suhaylī (d. 581 AH).
5 – the Maghāzī of al-Wāqidī (d. 207 AH).
6 – the Maghāzī of Muḥammad ibn ʿĀʾidh (d. 233 AH).
7 – Ṭabaqāt Ibn Saʿd (d. 230 AH).
8 – the Maghāzī of al-Umawī (d. 249 AH).
[E – Works on the Proofs of Prophethood (Dalāʾil)]
1 – Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwah by al-Bayhaqī (d. 458 AH).
2 – Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwah by Abū Nuʿaym (d. 430 AH).
3 – Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwah by Ibn Ḥāmid (d. 403 AH).
4 – Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwah by Abū Zurʿah (d. 264 AH).
5 – Dalāʾil al-Nubuwwah by Ibn Shāhīn (d. 385 AH).
6 – al-Mabʿath by Hishām ibn ʿAmmār (d. 245 AH).