7 – al-Fitan wa l-Malāḥim, by Ibn ʿImād al-Khuzāʿī (d. 248 AH).
8 – al-Jawāb al-Ṣaḥīḥ liman Baddala Dīn al-Masīḥ, by Ibn Taymiyyah (d. 728 AH).
[W – Works on Islamic History]
1 – Tārīkh al-Ṭabarī (d. 310 AH).
2 – Tārīkh Dimashq, by Ibn ʿAsākir (d. 571 AH).
3 – Tārīkh al-Islām, by al-Dhahabī (d. 748 AH).
4 – Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ, by al-Dhahabī (d. 748 AH).
5 – al-Muntaẓam, by Ibn al-Jawzī (d. 597 AH).
6 – al-Kāmil, by Ibn al-Athīr (d. 630 AH).
7 – Mirʾāt al-Zamān, by Sibṭ Ibn al-Jawzī (d. 654 AH).
8 – Kitāb al-Rawḍatayn, by Abū Shāmah (d. 665 AH).
9 – al-Barq al-Shāmī, by al-ʿImād al-Iṣfahānī (d. 597 AH).
10 – al-Jāmiʿ al-Mukhtaṣar, by Ibn al-Sāʿī (d. 674 AH).
11 – Tārīkh Baghdād, by al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī (d. 463 AH).
12 – Wafayāt al-Aʿyān, by Ibn Khallikān (d. 681 AH).
13 – Dhayl al-Rawḍatayn, by Abū Shāmah (d. 665 AH).
14 – Dhayl Mirʾāt al-Zamān, by al-Yūnīnī (d. 729 AH).
15 – al-Muqtafā li-Tārīkh Abī Shāmah, by al-Barzalī (d. 739 AH).
Fifth: Print Editions of al-Bidāyah wa l-Nihāyah
A – al-Bidāyah. The principal editions are:
1 – The edition sponsored by Maṭbaʿat al-Saʿādah, the Salafiyyah Press, and Maktabat al-Khānajī; printed at Maṭbaʿat al-Saʿādah in Cairo, based on the manuscript of the Aḥmadiyyah School in Aleppo, Syrian Arab Republic, 1351 AH / 1932 CE, in fourteen volumes, without al-Nihāyah. This is the earliest printing.
2 – The al-Maʿārif edition (Beirut) in cooperation with Maktabat al-Naṣr (Riyadh), 1386 AH / 1966 CE, in fourteen parts bound in seven volumes, likewise without al-Nihāyah; it has been reprinted photographically several times.
3 – The Dār Hajr edition, whose cover reads: edited by Dr. ʿAbd Allāh al-Muḥsin al-Turkī in collaboration with the Center for Arab and Islamic Research and Studies; published by Dār Hajr, Cairo, 1417 AH / 1997 CE, in twenty-one volumes together with al-Nihāyah. The text was collated against a number of manuscript copies.
B – As for the editions of al-Nihāyah (al-Fitan wa l-Malāḥim), they are:
1 – Dār al-Kutub al-Ḥadīthah (Cairo), edited by Dr. Ṭāhā Muḥammad al-Zaynī, 1389 AH / 1969 CE, in two volumes.
2 – Maktabat al-Naṣr al-Ḥadīthah (Riyadh), edited by Muḥammad Fahīm Abū ʿUbaybah, 1387 AH / 1968 CE, in three volumes.
3 – Dār al-Iftāʾ (Riyadh), published by Shaykh Ismāʿīl al-Anṣārī, 1388 AH / 1969 CE, in two volumes.