The Great History

The Great History

Author	Muhammad al-Bukhari
Original title	al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr
Language	Arabic
Subject	biographical evaluation
Published	Da'rah al-Ma`arif al- `Uthmaniyyah

The Great History (Arabic: التاريخ الكبير; al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr‎) is a book by ninth-century Islamic scholar Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari in the field of biographical evaluation.^[1]

Overview

Bukhari authored this work when he was 18 years of age. He compiled the names and biographies of many of those who narrated hadith from the time of the Companions until his time. The total number of biographies included is close to 40 thousand, including both men and women, reliable and unreliable narrators. However, al-Hakim enumerated the weak narrators of that total number and they were not more than 126 individuals.^[1]

Bukhari also authored two other books of history, al-Tarikh al-Awsat (The Medium History) and al-Tarikh al-Saghir (The Small History).^[1]

Praise

Taj al-Subki praised The Great History, describing it as a book without precedent, to which latter scholars on the subject of names and paidonymics are indebted.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Al-Kattani, Muhammad ibn Ja`far; Al-Risalah al-Mustatrafah, pg. 128–9, (Beirut: Dar al-Basha'ir al-Islamiyyah); seventh edition, 2007.

Sunni hadith literature

Kutub al-Sittah	Sahih al-Bukhari Sahih Muslim Sunan an-Nasa'i al-Sughra Sunan Abu Dawood Sunan al-Tirmidhi Sunan ibn Majah

Primary collections	Sahifah Hammam ibn Munabbih Musannaf ibn Jurayj Al-Muwatta The Musannaf of Abd al-Razzaq Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal Sunan al-Darimi Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah Sahih Ibn Hibbaan Al-Mustadrak alaa al-Sahihain Mawdu'at al-Kubra Tahdhib al-Athar

Secondary collections	Riyadh as-Saaliheen Masabih al-Sunnah Mishkat al-Masabih Majma al-Zawa'id Bulugh al-Maram Kanz al-Ummal Minhaj us Sawi

Types	Sahih Musnad Collections of fabricated hadith Musannaf Al-Zawa'id

Commentaries	Fath al-Bari (explanation of Sahih al-Bukhari)

Hadith terminology and study	Muqaddimah ibn al-Salah fi 'Ulum al-Hadith The Interpretation of Conflicting Narrations

Biographical evaluation	al-Tarikh al-Kabir Al-Kamal fi Asma' al-Rijal

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The Great History