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The foremost historian of Islam and hadith critic, author of Siyar Alam an-Nubala (biographies of notable figures).
The greatest hadith critic and historian of the 8th century AH (673-748 AH), student of Ibn Taymiyyah. His monumental works — Siyar A'lam al-Nubala, Mizan al-I'
By Imam adh-Dhahabi. A monumental biographical dictionary covering over 5,000 n...
...ins approximately 8,800 narrations. While scholars like adh-Dhahabi noted that al-Hakim was sometimes lenient in his grading, t...
By Imam adh-Dhahabi. A practical guide identifying and explaining the major sin...
By Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani. A reworking of al-Dhahabi's Mizan al-I'tidal focused on weak and discredited hadith n...
By Shams al-Din al-Dhahabi. A massive biographical encyclopedia of the most distinguis...
...omprehensive chronicle of world history from creation to al-Dhahabi's era, written from an Islamic perspective. It covers pre-I...
...800 hadiths with his assessments of their authenticity. Adh-Dhahabi later reviewed the work and provided corrections in his Tal...
By Shams ad-Din adh-Dhahabi. A biographical dictionary of the greatest hadith memorizer...
By Shams ad-Din adh-Dhahabi. A comprehensive biographical dictionary of hadith narrator...
...y Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani. An expansion and correction of adh-Dhahabi's Mizan al-I'tidal. Ibn Hajar adds narrators not found in t...
By Shams ad-Din adh-Dhahabi. A masterful biographical encyclopedia covering the most no...