Tabaqat ash-Shafi'iyyah al-Kubra

طبقات الشافعية الكبرى

The most comprehensive biographical dictionary of Shafi'i scholars, from Imam ash-Shafi'i himself through the author's contemporaries. As-Subki provides detailed biographies, scholarly evaluations, and anecdotes about hundreds of jurists, hadith scholars, and theologians who followed the Shafi'i school.