Index of the Principal Critical Sources

1 – al-Badr al-Ṭāliʿ bi-Maḥāsin man baʿd al-Qarn al-Sābiʿ (The Rising Full Moon on the Merits of Those Who Lived after the Seventh Century) by Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Shawkānī al-Yamanī. Publisher: Dār al-Maʿrifah, Beirut.

2 – Tadhkirat al-Ḥuffāẓ wa Tabṣirat al-Ayqāẓ (A Memorial to the Ḥadith Masters and an Awakening for the Heedless) by Jamāl al-Dīn Yūsuf ibn Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī al-Ṣāliḥī, known as Ibn al-Mibrad al-Ḥanbalī; ed. Nūr al-Dīn Ṭālib. Publisher: Dār al-Nawādir, Syria; 1st ed., 1432 AH / 2011 CE.

3 – Tawḍīḥ al-Mushtabih fī Ḍabṭ Asmāʾ al-Ruwāh wa-Ansābihim wa-Alqābihim wa-Kunāhum (Clarifying the Dubious in the Vocalisation of Transmitters’ Names, Lineages, Epithets and Kunyas) by Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Qaysī al-Dimashqī al-Shāfiʿī, Shams al-Dīn, famed as Ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn; ed. Muḥammad Naʿīm al-ʿArqusūsī. Publisher: Muʾassasat al-Risālah, Beirut – Lebanon; 1st ed., 1993 CE.

4 – al-Jawāhir wa-al-Durar fī Tarjamat Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Ḥajar (Jewels and Pearls: The Biography of Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Ḥajar) by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sakhāwī; ed. Ibrāhīm Bājis ʿAbd al-Majīd. Publisher: Dār Ibn Ḥazm, Beirut – Lebanon; 1st ed., 1419 AH.

5 – Dhayl al-Taqyīd fī Ruwāt al-Sunan wa-al-Asānīd (A Supplement to “al-Taqyīd” on the Narrators of the Sunan and Their Chains) by Abū al-Ṭayyib Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Makkī al-Ḥasanī al-Fāsī; ed. Kamāl Yūsuf al-Ḥūt. Publisher: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyyah, Beirut – Lebanon; 1st ed., 1410 AH.

6 – Dhayl Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥuffāẓ (Supplement to “Classes of the Ḥadith Masters”) by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Suyūṭī; ed. Zakariyyā ʿUmayrāt. Publisher: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyyah.

7 – Shadharāt al-Dhahab fī Akhbār man Dhahab (Golden Fragments on Those Who Passed Away) by Abū al-Falāḥ ʿAbd al-Ḥayy ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-ʿImād al-ʿUkarī al-Ḥanbalī; ed. Maḥmūd al-Arnaʾūṭ; ḥadiths verified by ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Arnaʾūṭ. Publisher: Dār Ibn Kathīr, Damascus – Syria; 1st ed., 1406 AH.

8 – Sharḥ Sunan Abī Dāwūd (Commentary on Sunan Abī Dāwūd) by Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Ruslān al-Maqdisī al-Ramlī al-Shāfiʿī; ed. a team of researchers at Dār al-Falāḥ under the supervision of Khālid al-Rabbāṭ. Publisher: Dār al-Falāḥ for Scholarly Research and Heritage Verification, al-Fayyūm – Egypt; 1st ed., 1437 AH.

9 – Sharḥ Nukhbat al-Fikr fī Muṣṭalaḥ Ahl al-Athar (Commentary on “The Chosen Summary” of Ḥadith Terminology) by ʿAlī ibn Sulṭān Muḥammad, Abū al-Ḥasan Nūr al-Dīn al-Mullā al-Harawī al-Qārī; ed. Muḥammad Nizār Tamīm and Haitham Nizār Tamīm. Publisher: Dār al-Arqam, Beirut.

10 – al-Ḍawʾ al-Lāmiʿ li-Ahl al-Qarn al-Tāsiʿ (The Shining Light for the People of the Ninth Century) by Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sakhāwī. Publisher: Dār Maktabat al-Ḥayāt, Beirut.

11 – Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥuffāẓ (Classes of the Ḥadith Masters) by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Suyūṭī. Publisher: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyyah, Beirut; 1st ed., 1403 AH.

12 – Fatāwā Nūr ʿalā al-Darb (Legal Opinions “Light on the Path”) by ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Bāz. Publisher: The General Presidency for Scholarly Research and Iftāʾ, Riyadh – Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; 1st ed., 1428 AH / 2007 CE.

13 – Qaḍāʾ al-Waṭar fī Nuzhat al-Naẓar fī Tawḍīḥ Nukhbat al-Fikr fī Muṣṭalaḥ Ahl al-Athar (The Fulfilment of Desire in the Leisurely Gaze: Elucidation of “The Chosen Summary” of Ḥadith Terminology) by Burhān al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Ibrāhīm al-Laqqānī; ed. Shādī ibn Muḥammad ibn Sālim Āl-Nuʿmān. Publisher: al-Dār al-Athariyyah, Amman – Jordan; 1st ed., 1431 AH / 2010 CE.

14 – Laḥẓ al-Alḥāẓ bi-Dhayl Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥuffāẓ (“A Keen Glance,” a Supplement to “Classes of the Ḥadith Masters”) by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, Abū al-Faḍl Taqī al-Dīn Ibn Fahd al-Hāshimī al-Makkī al-Shāfiʿī. Publisher: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyyah; 1st ed., 1419 AH / 1998 CE.

15 – al-Majmaʿ al-Muʾassis li-al-Muʿjam al-Mufahras (The Foundational Compendium for the Indexed Dictionary) by Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī; ed. Yūsuf ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Marʿashlī. Publisher: Dār al-Maʿrifah, Beirut; 1st ed., 1413–1415 AH.

16 – Mukhtār al-Ṣiḥāḥ (The Select Lexicon) by Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr ibn ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Ḥanafī al-Rāzī; ed. Yūsuf al-Shaykh Muḥammad. Publisher: al-Maktabah al-ʿAṣriyyah – al-Dār al-Namūdhajiyyah, Beirut – Sidon; 5th ed., 1420 AH.

17 – al-Manhal al-Ṣāfī wa-al-Mustawfā baʿd al-Wāfī (The Clear Spring and the Supplement after “al-Wāfī”) by Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Maḥāsin Yūsuf ibn Taghrī Birdī ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Ẓāhirī al-Ḥanafī; ed. Muḥammad Muḥammad Amīn. Publisher: The Egyptian General Book Authority, 1984 CE.

18 – Nuzhat al-Naẓar fī Sharḥ Nukhbat al-Fikr fī Muṣṭalaḥ Ahl al-Athar (A Leisurely Gaze: Commentary on “The Chosen Summary” of Ḥadith Terminology) by Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī; ed. ʿAbd al-Muḥsin ibn Muḥammad al-Qāsim.

19 – Naẓm al-ʿIqiyān fī Aʿyān al-Aʿyān (The Necklace of Pure Gold on the Notables of the Notables) by ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Abī Bakr al-Suyūṭī; ed. Philip Hitti. Publisher: al-Maktabah al-ʿIlmiyyah, Beirut.

20 – al-Nūr al-Sāfir ʿan Akhbār al-Qarn al-ʿĀshir (The Radiant Light on the Events of the Tenth Century) by Muḥyī al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn Shaykh ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿAydarūs. Publisher: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyyah, Beirut; 1st ed., 1405 AH.