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Clear filter.... The most authentic book after the Quran. A collection of hadith compiled over 16 years, selecting from 600,000 narration...
By Imam Muslim. The second most authentic hadith collection. Known for its superior organization and meth...
By Imam Abu Dawud. Focuses on hadith relevant to Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh).
By Imam at-Tirmidhi. Notable for grading each hadith and mentioning scholarly differences.
... most widely used and respected tafsirs. Relies heavily on hadith and narrations of the Salaf for explanation.
By Jalal ad-Din al-Mahalli & Jalal ad-Din as-Suyuti. A concise and wide...
...ahman Mubarakpuri. Award-winning biography of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. Won first prize in a worldwide Seerah competition held b...
By Imam an-Nawawi. A compilation of hadith covering all aspects of a Muslim's daily life, organized...
By Imam an-Nawawi. A collection of 42 hadith covering the foundations of Islam, faith, and moral cond...
By Ibn al-Qayyim. A comprehensive guide to the Prophet's life and practices, covering worship, daily life, medicine, warfare, and governance.
...ngs based directly on Quran and Sunnah, comparing all four madhabs. Widely used as an accessible introduction to Islamic j...
By Imam al-Ghazali. A monumental work covering worship, daily life, vices, and virtues. Al-Ghazali's masterpiece integrating fiqh, theology, and spiritual purif
...mentary on Sahih al-Bukhari. Considered the crown jewel of hadith commentary literature.
...dely used commentary on Sahih Muslim. Covers fiqh rulings, hadith terminology, and scholarly opinions.
By Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab. A concise work on Islamic monotheism, usi...
By Imam adh-Dhahabi. A monumental biographical dictionary covering ove...
By Imam an-Nasa'i. One of the six canonical hadith collections (Kutub as-Sittah). Known for its strict grad...
By Ibn Majah. The sixth of the canonical hadith collections. Contains approximately 4,341 hadith organiz...
... Imam Malik ibn Anas. The earliest surviving collection of hadith and the first work to systematically compile hadith alon...
By Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal. One of the largest hadith collections ever comp...
By Imam ad-Darimi. An early hadith collection predating several of the...
...bn Abi Shaybah. One of the earliest and most comprehensive hadith compilations, containing over 38,000 narrations includin...
By Abdur-Razzaq as-San'ani. Among the oldest surviving hadith compilations in Islam, compiled by the great Yemeni scho...
... by the author of Sahih al-Bukhari focusing exclusively on hadith related to manners, etiquette, and moral conduct. Contai...
By Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani. A concise collection of hadith that form the legal basis for Shafi'i fiqh rulings. Ibn ...
...zi. An expanded revision of al-Baghawi's Masabih as-Sunnah, adding source attributions, grading, and over 1,500 additional...
...hani al-Maqdisi. A concise collection of approximately 420 hadith agreed upon by al-Bukhari and Muslim (muttafaq alayh), s...
By Al-Mundhiri. A major collection of hadith organized around encouragement toward good deeds and war...
By Ibn Hibban. A hadith collection organized in a unique thematic arrangement ra...
By Al-Hakim an-Naysaburi. A collection of hadith that al-Hakim argued meet the criteria of al-Bukhari and...
By Muhammad Nasir ad-Din al-Albani. A modern hadith authentication proj...
...lopedic works of legal tafsir. It covers grammar, variant readings, occasions of revelation, and abrogation alongside deta...
By Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi. Known as 'The Great Tafsir' (at-Tafsir al-Kabi...
...s from each verse, making this work popular among general readers and students. Despite its conciseness, it is considered ...
By Ibn al-Jawzi. A medium-length tafsir that excels in presenting multiple scholarly opinions concisely. Ibn al-Jawzi, the great Hanbali polymath, compiled the
By Muhammad al-Amin ash-Shinqiti. A distinguished modern tafsir that in...
By Jalal ad-Din as-Suyuti. A massive compilation of narration-based taf...
By Burhan ad-Din al-Marghinani. The most studied and authoritative fiqh ...
...y the famous Andalusian philosopher and jurist. Rather than advocating one school, Ibn Rushd systematically presents the p...
By Al-Hajjawi. A highly condensed abridgment of Ibn Qudamah's al-Muqni, presenting the relied-upon positions of the Hanbali school in the most concise language
By Ibn Qudamah al-Maqdisi. A comprehensive yet accessible Hanbali fiqh manual by the author of al-Mughni. While al-Mughni is encyclopedic and comparative, al-Ka
...i. An-Nawawi's monumental commentary on ash-Shirazi's al-Muhadhdhab, widely considered the greatest work of comparative fi...
...three major Hanafi imams (Abu Hanifah, Abu Yusuf, and Muhammad ash-Shaybani), and the rational justifications for each pos...
...anafi school, serving as a super-commentary on al-Haskafi's ad-Durr al-Mukhtar. Ibn Abidin synthesized centuries of Hanafi...
By Abdullah Ba Fadl. A concise beginner-level Shafi'i fiqh manual widely studi...
...nitive work for determining the relied-upon position (mu'tamad) within the Hanbali school when internal disagreements exis...
By Jalal ad-Din as-Suyuti. A foundational work on Islamic legal maxims ...
...rst texts memorized by students of aqeedah in the Hanbali tradition.
...Ash'ari explicitly aligns himself with the creed of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal and the Ahl al-Hadith, affirming divine attribut...
... refutes Shia theological claims point by point, while also addressing issues of creed, politics, and history from the Sun...
By Ibn Khuzaymah. An early hadith-based work on the divine attributes compiled by the grea...
By Al-Lalika'i. A massive compilation of creedal statements and narrations from the Prophet, the Companions, the Tabi'in, and later scholars of Ahl us-Sunnah, o
...amous and widely relied upon biography of the Prophet Muhammad. Ibn Hisham edited and annotated the earlier Sirah of Ibn I...
...ineage, conversion, participation in battles, narration of hadith, and personal qualities. An indispensable source for the...
...story from creation through the prophets, the life of Muhammad, the Rashidun caliphate, the Umayyads, and the Abbasids up ...
.... The work is the primary source for the history of the Crusades from the Muslim perspective and the Mongol destruction of...
By Muhammad Yusuf al-Kandhlawi. A comprehensive compilation of narratio...
... verified each person's status as a Companion using strict hadith methodology, distinguishing between confirmed Companions...
By Ibn Khaldun. A groundbreaking introduction to Ibn Khaldun's universal history, widely regarded as the first work of sociology, historiography, and philosophy
By Qadi Iyad. A beloved work on the rights, qualities, and miracle...
...ions of his larger historical work. Ibn Kathir applied his hadith expertise to evaluate the chains of narration for each e...
...ost balanced work on Islamic spirituality from the Athari tradition.
...ich itself was a purified version of al-Ghazali's Ihya Ulum ad-Din. Ibn Qudamah removed the weak and fabricated hadith fro...
...b al-Hanbali. An extensive commentary on an-Nawawi's Forty Hadith plus eight additional hadith, totaling fifty narrations....
...f-contained gem of spiritual wisdom, making this a widely read devotional text.
By Ibn Muflih. A comprehensive manual of Islamic etiquette and character covering every aspect of a Muslim's social and personal life. Ibn Muflih, a student of
... Also known as al-Jawab al-Kafi in some editions, this work addresses the devastating effects of sins on the individual an...
...all earlier grammar versifications and remains the standard advanced grammar text in traditional Islamic education. Ibn Aq...
...zing entries by root letters and providing Quranic verses, hadith, poetry, and prose examples for each word. It remains th...
...ridges the gap between the elementary al-Ajrumiyyah and the advanced Alfiyyah of Ibn Malik. Ibn Hisham, widely regarded as...
...nches of balaghah: ma'ani (meanings), bayan (clarity), and badi' (embellishment) with clear definitions, Quranic examples,...
...exts, abrogation, consensus, analogical reasoning, and ijtihad. Despite its brevity, it became one of the most widely taug...
By Ibn Qudamah al-Maqdisi. The most important work of usul al-fiqh in the Hanbali school. Ibn Qudamah based it on al-Ghazali's al-Mustasfa while incorporating t
...gues for the strongest view based on evidence. Ash-Shawkani advocates for ijtihad over taqlid throughout the work, making ...
...usul al-fiqh in Sunni Islam, alongside ar-Risalah, al-Mu'tamad, and al-Burhan. Al-Ghazali systematized legal theory with p...
By Qadi Abu Yusuf. Written at the request of Caliph Harun ar-Rashi...
...ycles, population dynamics, and the relationship between nomadic and urban societies. Widely regarded as one of the most i...
...l-Mizzi. The most comprehensive biographical dictionary of hadith narrators in Islamic scholarship. Al-Mizzi compiled deta...
... al-Asqalani. The most widely studied introductory text on hadith terminology (mustalah al-hadith). Ibn Hajar condensed th...
... detailed and widely referenced intermediate-level text on hadith methodology. As-Suyuti explains every term and concept i...
...s related to the Quran including its compilation, variant readings, occasions of revelation, abrogation, Meccan and Medina...
...andard commentary on Sahih Muslim, an-Nawawi explains each hadith with its linguistic meanings, fiqh rulings, and the posi...
By Ibn al-Qayyim. A wide-ranging work that begins as a treatise on the virtue of knowledge and expands into a comprehensive discussion of divine wisdom in creat
...Qayyim identifies the various methods by which Shaytan misleads human beings and prescribes specific remedies from the Qur...
By Qadi Iyad. One of the most beloved works on the Prophet Muhamma...
By Imam at-Tirmidhi. A hadith collection dedicated to describing the Prophet's physica...
...ranslated into dozens of languages and is the most widely read seerah in the contemporary Muslim world.
...ence. Al-Ghazali's clear prose and systematic organization made complex legal discussions accessible to students.
...s 20 propositions of Aristotelian-Neoplatonic philosophy as adopted by Muslim philosophers like Ibn Sina and al-Farabi. He...
...l crisis and the journey that led him from the heights of academic fame through radical skepticism to eventual spiritual c...
By Shah Waliullah ad-Dihlawi. A groundbreaking work that attempts to explain the...
...ining the unique identity of the Muslim community. The work addresses festivals, customs, dress, and other areas where ext...
By Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab. A concise treatise addressing the common ...
By Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab. A short but foundational text on the thre...
...ng the mushaf, the merits of specific surahs, and practical advice for memorization. This work has served as the standard ...
By Ibn Nujaym al-Misri. A major commentary on Kanz ad-Daqa'iq in Hanafi jurisprudence. Ibn Nujaym provides clear ...
...risprudence organized by legal principles rather than the traditional chapter format. Al-Kasani rearranged his teacher's w...
...anafi, Maliki, and Shafi'i schools. Known for its rigorous hadith-based methodology and sharp argumentation.
...aqa al-Akhbar by Ibn Taymiyyah's grandfather, covering the hadith evidence for legal rulings. Ash-Shawkani analyzes each h...
...r, fasting, zakat, hajj). Popular as a beginner's text in traditional Islamic education, it presents the essential Hanafi ...
...tails. Widely used as an intermediate Hanafi fiqh text in traditional study circles and seminaries.
By Abu al-Barakat an-Nasafi. An extremely concise summary of Hanafi jurisprudence that became one of the most commented-upon texts in the school. Despite its br
By Imam ad-Dasuqi. A detailed gloss on ad-Dardir's Sharh al-Kabir, whi...
By Abu al-Barakat an-Nasafi. A concise yet comprehensive tafsir that draws from az-Zamakhshari and al-Baydawi while maintaining Maturidi theology. Popular in Ha
By Abu as-Su'ud al-Imadi. A literary and theological masterpiece of Quranic exegesi...
..., bringing together the insights of previous exegetes while adding the author's own analysis. Al-Alusi, the Mufti of Baghd...
By Imam al-Baghawi. A comprehensive hadith commentary that selects narrations from the six major co...
...gest of at-Tabarani's three mu'jam collections, organizing hadith by the names of the companion narrators in alphabetical ...
By Imam al-Bayhaqi. An encyclopedic collection organizing hadith according to the 'branches of faith,' based on the Proph...
By Imam al-Bayhaqi. One of the most important hadith collections for legal purposes, organizing narrations by...
By Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal. A collection of narrations and reports about th...
...xt, with its numerous commentaries, forms the backbone of traditional theological education in the Maliki-Ash'ari traditio...
By Imam al-Ghazali. Al-Ghazali's mature work on Islamic theology, presenting the Ash'ari creed with rational proofs in a balanced and moderate tone. The title m
By Imam al-Juwayni. An advanced work on Ash'ari theology by al-Ghazali's teacher, kno...
...entaries have been written on it, the most famous by Ibn Abbad ar-Rundi and Ahmad Zarruq.
.... Written as a practical manual for those seeking spiritual advancement.
... and recognize the subtle tricks of the ego (nafs). Imam Ahmad initially criticized al-Muhasibi but later acknowledged his...
By Imam al-Mawardi. A comprehensive work on the etiquettes of both worldly and religious life. Al-Mawardi discusses the ethics of knowledge-seeking, the duties
...of wisdom, anecdotes, and etiquettes compiled by the great hadith scholar Ibn Hibban. The work covers topics such as intel...
...tary has been the standard textbook for Arabic grammar in traditional Islamic education for centuries.
..., and other literary devices with examples from the Quran, hadith, and Arabic poetry, establishing the theoretical framewo...
By Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi. One of the most important and comprehensive wo...
By Sayf ad-Din al-Amidi. A masterwork of Islamic legal theory that bec...
...ols with sharp logic and vast textual evidence. Essential reading for understanding Islamic legal pluralism.
...pth and precision of Islamic legal reasoning. Essential for advanced fiqh students.
...akim an-Naysaburi. One of the earliest systematic works on hadith methodology, classifying the sciences of hadith into 52 ...
By Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi. A comprehensive treatise on the principles of hadith tran...
By Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi. A work on the etiquettes and ethics of hadith narrators a...
...pproach of earlier seerah works with Ibn Kathir's rigorous hadith methodology, critically evaluating the chains of narrati...
...hami. The most comprehensive biography of the Prophet Muhammad ever compiled, spanning twelve volumes. As-Salihi gathered ...
By Imam al-Baladhuri. A foundational work on the early Islamic conquests, co...
By Al-Mas'udi. A sweeping world history and geography by 'the Herodotus of the Arabs.' Al-Mas'udi covers the history of nations from creation to his own time, i
...es, and military commanders, as well as taxation and public administration. A foundational text for Islamic political thou...
...on of evidence and testimony, oaths, documentation, and the administration of justice. An essential reference for understa...
By Ibn as-Salah. The most influential intermediate work on hadith terminology and methodology, synthesizing the earlier wo...
...-Humam. A masterful commentary on al-Hidayah that combines hadith verification with legal analysis. Ibn al-Humam, one of t...
...ry principles, showing how individual rulings connect to broader legal reasoning. A key text for understanding Islamic leg...
By Abdul Azim Badawi. A modern comparative fiqh manual that presents rulings ...
By Ibn Abd al-Barr. An encyclopedic commentary on the hadith in Imam Malik's al-Muwatta, organized by the names of na...
...d al-Barr covers the jurisprudential issues raised by each hadith, presenting the positions of all schools with their evid...
...hib al-Kamal, the comprehensive biographical dictionary of hadith narrators. Ibn Hajar condensed the material while adding...
...at-Tahdhib, providing the essential biographical data and grading for each narrator in one or two lines. Ibn Hajar assigns...
By Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi. A biographical dictionary of the scholars, hadith narrato...
By Imam al-Baladhuri. An extensive genealogical and biographical history of ...
By Sa'd ad-Din at-Taftazani. An advanced work on Islamic theology that...
By Sa'd ad-Din at-Taftazani. A widely studied commentary on Najm ad-Di...
By Taj ad-Din as-Subki. The most comprehensive biographical dictionar...
By Abd al-Qadir al-Qurashi. The most important biographical dictionary of...
...ik through the 8th century AH. Ibn Farhun documents the spread of the Maliki school across North Africa, al-Andalus, Egypt...
By Ibn Badran. An introduction to the Hanbali school of jurisprudence ...
... presents each issue systematically, noting where all four madhabs agree and where they differ, with evidence for each pos...
...eory by the first teacher at the Nizamiyyah college in Baghdad. Ash-Shirazi presents the principles of jurisprudence in a ...
...lear presentation of Shafi'i positions with their evidence made this work a standard reference for centuries.
...e to annihilation in Allah. Ibn al-Qayyim wrote his famous Madarij as-Salikin as a commentary on this work.
...iate-level Hanbali fiqh text that became the foundation for advanced study. Ibn Qudamah presents the primary positions of ...
By Baha ad-Din al-Maqdisi. A commentary on Umdat al-Fiqh, the beginner...
By Badr ad-Din az-Zarkashi. A comprehensive collection of Islamic ...
... and moral conduct. As-Samarqandi draws on Quranic verses, hadith, and stories of the righteous to awaken heedless hearts....
By Imam adh-Dhahabi. A practical guide identifying and explaining the ...
...wi, simplified for a wider audience. Al-Khazin removes the hadith chains and focuses on meaning, making it particularly su...
...ntary on the entire Quran designed for the general Muslim reader. Al-Jaza'iri explains each passage in clear, contemporary...
By Mufti Muhammad Shafi. The most comprehensive modern Urdu commentary on the...
...ive collection of authentic supplications and remembrances (adhkar) for every occasion in a Muslim's daily life, from waki...
By Muhammad Yusuf al-Kandhalwi. A comprehensive biography of the Prophe...
By Ibn Rushd al-Jadd. A foundational work in Maliki jurisprudence by the grandf...
...h extensive legal reasoning. It remains a key reference for advanced Shafi'i scholarship.
...s. Ibn Battal focuses on extracting legal rulings from the hadith, presenting the views of the major schools of fiqh. Ibn ...
By Badr ad-Din al-Ayni. A comprehensive commentary on Sahih al-Buk...
By Qadi Iyad. A major commentary on Sahih Muslim by the renowned M...
...he three branches: ma'ani (meanings), bayan (clarity), and badi' (embellishment). As-Sakkaki's classification became the s...
...explains Arabic syntax with clear examples from the Quran, hadith, and poetry. It bridges the gap between beginner texts l...
...ference for anyone studying the language of the Quran at an advanced level.
...bu Nu'aym. Ibn al-Athir arranged entries alphabetically and added critical analysis. Together with al-Isabah, it forms the...
By Muhammad al-Hajwi. A comprehensive history of Islamic jurisprudence ...
...essence of the spiritual path: knowledge without action is madness, and action without sincerity is useless. This short tr...
By Imam al-Ghazali. A Persian abridgment of the Ihya Ulum ad-Din, written for a broader audience. Al-Ghazali distills th...
...ayyim al-Jawziyyah. A detailed treatment of divine decree (qadr) and predestination in Islamic theology. Ibn al-Qayyim add...
By Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah. Extracted from Zad al-Ma'ad, this work compiles the Prophet's guidance on heal...
... the most celebrated works of Arabic literary criticism and adab literature.
By Ahmad al-Qastallani. A comprehensive biography of the Prophet foc...
By Wahbah az-Zuhayli. The most comprehensive modern comparative fiqh encyclopedia. Az-Zuhayli covers every area of Islamic law, presenting the views of all four
By Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ash-Shaybani. Imam Muhammad's transmission of ...
...anawi's scholarship and use of European biblical criticism made this one of the most influential Islamic apologetic works.
By Muhammad at-Tahir ibn Ashur. The most important modern work on the o...
By Muhammad at-Tahir ibn Ashur. A monumental modern tafsir that combine...
By Sayyid Qutb. A widely read modern Quranic commentary written largely while the author ...
...ides thorough analysis of legal rulings with evidence from hadith and the opinions of early Hanafi scholars.
...-Jamal. A gloss (hashiyah) on Tafsir al-Jalalayn, providing additional commentary and clarification on the concise Quranic...
...bn Hajar al-Haytami's work is particularly followed in the Hadrami, Southeast Asian, and Egyptian Shafi'i traditions.
By Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi. A foundational Shafi'i legal text that became one of the most commented-upon works in Islamic jurisprudence. Al-Nawawi's famous al-Majm
By Ahmad al-Dardir. A major commentary on Mukhtasar Khalil, the most...
By Muhammad al-Dasuqi. A detailed gloss on al-Dardir's Sharh al-Kabir, ...
By Burhan al-Din al-Marginani. The base text upon which al-Marginani built his famous al-Hidayah commentary. It combines the content of al-Quduri's Mukhtasar wi
...fi legal analysis. Ibn al-Humam combines deep knowledge of hadith with rigorous legal reasoning, examining evidence from a...
By Ibn Abidin. The most authoritative late Hanafi legal reference, commonly known as "Hashiyat Ibn Abidin." It is a massive commentary on al-Haskafi's al-Durr a
... the various narrations and positions attributed to Imam Ahmad, making it indispensable for Hanbali scholarship.
...fiqh manual that became one of the most authoritative mu'tamad texts in the school. Al-Buhuti's Kashshaf al-Qina' is the c...
...jurisprudence, covering the various narrations from Imam Ahmad. Ibn Muflih was a student of Ibn Taymiyyah and his work bec...
...uti. Al-Buhuti's commentary on Ibn al-Najjar's Muntaha al-Iradat, the other of the two central Hanbali references alongsid...
By Ibn Rushd al-Jadd. An introduction to the al-Mudawwanah by the grandfather o...
By Ibn Rushd al-Jadd. A massive commentary on al-Utbiyyah, one of the earliest ...
... that reorganizes fiqh by topic rather than following the traditional chapter order. Al-Kasani's systematic approach and c...
... by chain of narration. Ibn Abd al-Barr provides extensive hadith criticism, biographical information, and legal analysis ...
By Badr al-Din al-Ayni. One of the three greatest commentaries on ...
By Ahmad al-Qastallani. The third of the three great commentaries on...
By Qadi Iyad. A completion of al-Maziri's al-Mu'allim bi-Fawaid Mu...
... on Sahih Muslim, al-Nawawi provides clear explanations of hadith texts, discusses variant readings, explains difficult vo...
...omprehensive commentary on Jami' al-Tirmidhi by the Indian hadith scholar al-Mubarakpuri. It provides detailed explanation...
By al-Azimabadi. The most well-known commentary on Sunan Abi Dawud. Al-Azi...
...l-Ruba ala al-Mujtaba. It provides concise explanations of hadiths and their legal implications in the tradition of al-Suy...
...Zujajah. Al-Suyuti provides concise annotations clarifying hadith meanings, noting weak narrations, and connecting them to...
By Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani. A critical work of hadith verification (takhrij) for the hadiths cited in al-Rafi'...
By Jamal al-Din al-Zayla'i. A groundbreaking work of hadith verification for al-Marginani's al-Hidayah. Al-Zayla'i t...
By Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi. The most comprehensive work on hadith narrator biographies in Islamic scholarship. Al-Mizzi re...
...idgment and refinement of al-Mizzi's Tahdhib al-Kamal, with additional critical assessments and corrections. Ibn Hajar's w...
...-concise summary of Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, giving a one-line grading for each narrator in the six books. It became the most p...
...Dhahabi's Mizan al-I'tidal focused on weak and discredited hadith narrators. Ibn Hajar adds corrections, additional inform...
...graphical dictionary of the Companions of the Prophet Muhammad. Ibn Hajar catalogues over 12,000 Companions, providing the...
...amic prophets, the seerah, the Rashidun caliphate, the Umayyads, Abbasids, and beyond.
...bn Khaldun. The full historical work of which the famous Muqaddimah is the introduction. The Kitab al-Ibar covers the hist...
By Jalal ad-Din as-Suyuti. The most comprehensive classical work on the...
By Badr ad-Din az-Zarkashi. A pioneering encyclopedic work on the ...
By Al-Hakim an-Naysaburi. A major hadith collection containing narrations that meet the criteria ...
By Ali ibn Umar ad-Daraqutni. A hadith collection focused on legal hadiths, co...
...he largest of at-Tabarani's three mu'jam (dictionary-style hadith) collections, organized alphabetically by the names of C...
...arrations and is known for preserving many unique (gharib) hadiths not found in other collections. Scholars value it parti...
By Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Khuzaymah. A collection of hadith that the au...
By Abu Hatim ibn Hibban. A major hadith collection containing narrations that Ibn Hibban authent...
By Ali ibn Umar ad-Daraqutni. A masterwork of hadith criticism identifying hid...
By Abu Ahmad ibn Adi. The most comprehensive classical work on weak hadi...
...Abi Hatim ar-Razi. A monumental biographical dictionary of hadith narrators with evaluations of their reliability. Ibn Abi...
By Shams ad-Din adh-Dhahabi. A biographical dictionary of the greatest ...
By Shams ad-Din adh-Dhahabi. A comprehensive biographical dictionary of...
By Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani. An expansion and correction of adh-Dhahabi's Mizan al-I'tidal. Ibn Hajar adds narrators not f...
By Ala ad-Din al-Kasani. A major Hanafi fiqh work renowned for its ex...
By Burhan ad-Din al-Marghinani. The most studied Hanafi fiqh text in the...
By Zayn ad-Din ibn Nujaym. An important Hanafi fiqh commentary on Kanz...
By Muhammad Amin ibn Abidin. The definitive reference for Hanafi fatwa ...
By Abu al-Barakat ad-Dardir. A major Maliki fiqh commentary on the Mukhtasar of ...
By Muhammad ibn Ahmad ad-Dusuqi. The most authoritative super-commentar...
By Shams ad-Din ar-Ramli. One of the two supreme references of later Sh...
By Ala ad-Din al-Mardawi. The most important work for determining the...
By Zayn ad-Din al-Iraqi. A comprehensive hadith verification (takhrij)...
By Jalal ad-Din as-Suyuti. A systematic collection of Shafi'i legal max...
By Zayn ad-Din ibn Nujaym. The Hanafi counterpart to as-Suyuti's work ...
By Ahmad az-Zarqa. A clear and accessible commentary on 99 legal max...
By Ibn Khaldun. One of the most important works in the history of social science. Ibn Khaldun analyzes the rise and fall of civilizations through his concept of
... (14th century CE). Ibn Kathir combines Quranic narrative, hadith reports, and historical accounts to produce the most com...
By Muhammad ibn Jarir at-Tabari. The most important general history in ...
By Izz ad-Din ibn al-Athir. A comprehensive universal history from th...
...Islamic spirituality that influenced al-Ghazali's Ihya Ulum ad-Din. Abu Talib al-Makki covers the spiritual dimensions of ...
...y into concise, memorable statements. Ibn Ata'illah's hikam address the heart's relationship with Allah, trust in divine w...
By Taj ad-Din as-Subki. The most comprehensive biographical dictionar...
...'tazili school, in which he affirms the theology of Imam Ahmad and the early scholars. This work is significant for unders...
... most developed form of kalam before al-Ghazali. Al-Juwayni addresses the attributes of God, prophethood, and eschatology ...
...lanced middle path between excessive rationalism and pure traditionalism. The work covers God's existence, attributes, pro...
...amiyyah, and other theological opponents. It is the primary advanced reference for Maturidi kalam.
...that would become dominant in the Hanafi world. Al-Maturidi addresses the existence of God, divine attributes, prophethood...
...versities. Az-Zuhayli presents usul al-fiqh in accessible academic language while maintaining scholarly rigor, covering so...
...hilosophical precision. This work shaped the entire later tradition of usul al-fiqh, and its logical methodology became st...
By Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi. A comprehensive and philosophically sophistica...
By Sayf ad-Din al-Amidi. One of the four foundational works of usul al...
By Taj ad-Din as-Subki. A concise and authoritative summary of usul a...
By Ala ad-Din al-Bukhari. The most comprehensive commentary on Fakhr ...
By Majd ad-Din ibn Taymiyyah. An important Hanbali fiqh manual by the ...
By Shams ad-Din ibn Muflih. A comprehensive Hanbali fiqh work that syst...
By Musa al-Hajjawi. The most studied Hanbali fiqh primer in Saudi Arabia and the Arabian Peninsula. Al-Hajjawi abridged Ibn Qudamah's Al-Muqni' into a concise t
By Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Duwayyan. A well-organized and evidence-based commentar...
By Muwaffaq ad-Din ibn Qudamah. A concise yet comprehensive Hanbali fiqh m...
By Abdullah Ba-Fadl. A beginner's text in Shafi'i fiqh that is widely studied ...
By Zayn ad-Din al-Malibari. An important Shafi'i fiqh text widely stud...
By Abu Bakr ad-Dimyati. A widely used super-commentary on Fath al-Mu'in th...
By Shams ad-Din al-Khatib ash-Shirbini. An important Shafi'i fiqh comme...
By Abu Sa'id al-Baradhi'i. An influential abridgment of the Mudawwanah that reorg...
...A comprehensive Maliki fiqh manual by the great Andalusian hadith scholar Ibn Abd al-Barr. Unlike his other works which ar...
...ar, organized format. Ibn Juzayy, a Maliki scholar from Granada, created an accessible reference that allows readers to co...
By Shihab ad-Din al-Qarafi. A major Maliki fiqh encyclopedia by one of t...
By Shihab ad-Din al-Qarafi. A groundbreaking work that identifies 548 di...
...ven non-Zahiri scholars consult this work for its rigorous hadith analysis and unique legal perspectives.
...tional fiqh work of Imam ash-Shafi'i containing his 'new' (jadid) legal opinions formulated in Egypt. It covers the full r...
By Abu Muhammad al-Baghawi. A comprehensive hadith commentary that collects...
By Abu Muhammad al-Baghawi. A well-organized hadith collection that classif...
...ibrizi. An expansion of al-Baghawi's Masabih as-Sunnah that adds a third category of hadiths from additional sources. At-T...
By Imam al-Bukhari. A hadith collection focused on manners, etiquette, and social con...
By Muhammad Zahid al-Kawthari. A collection of essays by the last Shayk...
By Ibn Asakir. A biographical and theological defense of Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari and the Ash'ari school by the great Damascene historian.
By Shams ad-Din adh-Dhahabi. A masterful biographical encyclopedia cove...
By Izz ad-Din ibn al-Athir. A major biographical dictionary of the Co...
By Ahmad ibn Qudamah al-Maqdisi. An abridgment of Ibn al-Jawzi's Min...
...Imam an-Nawawi. An-Nawawi's magisterial commentary on Al-Muhadhdhab, the most detailed work of comparative fiqh in the Sha...
By Imam an-Nawawi. A comprehensive collection of supplications and remembrances for every occasion in a Muslim's daily life.
By Muhammad ibn Ali ash-Shawkani. A comprehensive and independent treat...
By Muhammad ibn Ali ash-Shawkani. A comprehensive hadith commentary pre...
By Muhammad ibn Ismail as-San'ani. An important commentary on Ibn Hajar...
By Abu al-Ula al-Mubarakfuri. The most comprehensive commentary on Jami' at-Tirmidhi.
By Imam Malik / Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ash-Shaybani. Ash-Shaybani's narration of Imam...
By Imam ash-Shafi'i. A collection of hadiths narrated through Imam ash-Shafi'i's own chains.
By Ibn Taymiyyah. A concise treatise on Islamic governance addressing rulers' responsibilities and justice.
By Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani. A concise Maliki primer focused on worship and creed, widely used as an introduction in West African Islamic education.