...monumental works — Siyar A'lam al-Nubala, Mizan al-I'tidal, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, and Tarikh al-Islam — remain the essential biographical re...
By Shams ad-Din adh-Dhahabi. A biographical dictionary of the greatest hadith memorizers (huffaz) in Islamic history, from the Companions to adh-Dhahabi's own t