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Written work about jarh and ta'dil can be classified into three categories: | Written work about jarh and ta'dil can be classified into three categories: | ||
First: books that are only concerned with reliable transmitters of | First: books that are only concerned with reliable [[transmitters of hadith]]s, such as: ''Kitab Al-Thiqat'' of Ahmad b. Abd Allah b. Salih al-'Ijli (d. 261/875) and ''Kitab Al-Thiqat'' of Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Hibban al-Busti (d. 354/965) | ||
Second: books that are only concerned with unreliable transmitters of hadiths, such as: | Second: books that are only concerned with unreliable transmitters of hadiths, such as: | ||
*Kitab al-du'fa' al-saghir of Muhammad b. Isma'il al-Bukhari (d. 256/870) | *''Kitab al-du'fa' al-saghir'' of Muhammad b. Isma'il al-Bukhari (d. 256/870) | ||
*Kitab al-du'fa' wa al-matrukin of Nisa'i (d. 303/916) | *''Kitab al-du'fa' wa al-matrukin'' of Nisa'i (d. 303/916) | ||
*''Ma'rifat al-Majruhin min al-Muhaddithin'' of Ibn Hibban al-Busti | |||
*''Al-Kamil fi al-Du'afa' al-rijal'' of Abd Allah b. 'Uday al-Jurjani (d. 365/976) | |||
*''Kitab al-du'fa''' of Muhammad b. 'Umar al-'aqili (d. 322/934) | |||
*''Mizan al-'i'tidal fi al-naqd al-rijal'' of Shams al-Din Muhammad b. Ahmad al-Dahabi (d. 748/1348) | |||
The above books are from Sunni authors, in Shi'a books two books can be mentioned: | |||
*''Kitab al-du'fa' fi Tarikh al-a'immah'' of Ahmad b. Ibrahim b. Abi Rafi' | |||
*''[[Kitab al-du'fa' of Ibn al-Ghada'iri]]'' | |||
Third: books that are concerned with both reliable and unreliable transmitters of hadiths, such as: | |||
*''Al-Tarikh wa al-'ilal'' of Yahya b. Ma'in (d. 233/848) | |||
*''Al-'Ilal wa Ma'rifat al-rijal'' of Ahmad b. Hanbal (d. 241/856) | |||
*''Al-Tarikh al-Kabir'' of Muhammad b. 'Isma'il al-Bukhari (d. 256/870) | |||
*''Al-Jarh wa al-Ta'dil'' of Abd al-Rahman b. Abi Hatim (d. 327/939) | |||
The above books are from Sunni authors, in Shi'a books the four following books can be mentioned: | |||
*''[[Rijal al-Najashi]]'' of Ahmad b. 'Ali al-Najashi (d. After 463/1071) | |||
*''[[Ikhtiyar ma'rifat al-rijal]]'' of [[Al-Kashshi]] and ''[[Al-Fihrist (al-Tusi)|Al-Fihrist]]'' of [[Al-Tusi]] | |||
*''[[Rijal Ibn Dawud]]'' of [[Ibn Dawud al-Hilli]] | |||
*''[[Khulasat al-aqwal]]'' of [[Al-Allama al-Hilli]] | |||
In the majority of early Shiite books of [[rijal]], reliable transmitters of hadiths are not distinguished from unreliable ones, except in the works of [[al-'Allama al-Hilli]] and [[Ibn Dawud al-Hilli]]. | In the majority of early Shiite books of [[rijal]], reliable transmitters of hadiths are not distinguished from unreliable ones, except in the works of [[al-'Allama al-Hilli]] and [[Ibn Dawud al-Hilli]]. | ||