Affiliations.” (1) His teacher al-Daraqutni likewise compiled a sizeable work on the subject (2). After him, al-Khatib produced a supplement (3), and then Abū Naṣr Ibn Makūlā gathered everything into his book al-Ikmāl (4). He next authored another volume (5) in which he collated their mistakes, set them right, and explained them; this work is among the most comprehensive ever written on the topic and has remained the standard reference for every ḥadīth scholar after him.
Abū Bakr Ibn Nuqṭah subsequently augmented it (6), adding whatever Ibn Makūlā had missed or whatever had arisen after his time (7), and collected all of that in a large tome (8). Manṣūr ibn Salīm—with the sīn pronounced with a fatḥah—later composed a concise supplement (9); likewise (10) did Abū Ḥāmid Ibn al-Ṣābūnī (11).
(1) The work is available in print.
(2) He titled it al-Muʾtalif wa-l-Mukhtalif; it is in print.
(3) He called it al-Muʾtanaf fi Takmilat al-Muʾtalif wa-l-Mukhtalif; it is in print.
(4) Its full title is al-Ikmal fi Rafʿ ʿArid al-Irtiyab ʿan al-Muʾtalif wa-l-Mukhtalif min al-Asmaʾ wa-l-Kuna wa-l-Ansab; it is in print.
(5) He named it Tahdhib Mustamir al-Awham ʿala Dhawi al-Maʿrifa wa-Uli al-Afham; it is in print.
(6) Manuscript D adds the phrase wa-istadraka (and he supplemented).
(7) The word baʿdahu (after it) is absent in manuscript M.
(8) He entitled it Takmilat al-Ikmal; it is in print.
(9) A marginal note in manuscript L reads mujalladan latifan (a small volume) instead of fi mujalladin latifin (in a small volume). He called it Dhayl Takmilat al-Ikmal; it is in print.
(10) Manuscript Z has the phrase wa-kadha (and likewise).
(11) In a book he named Takmilat Ikmal al-Ikmal, which is also in print.