Genealogies of the Nobles

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Sunni six major collections
(Al-Kutub al-Sittah):

  1. Sahih Bukhari
  2. Sahih Muslim
  3. al-Sunan al-Sughra
  4. Sunan Abu Da'ud
  5. Sunan al-Tirmidhi
  6. Sunan Ibn Maja/Al-Muwatta

Shi'a collections:

  1. Usul al-Kafi and Furu al-Kafi of Kulayni
  2. Man la Yahdhuruhu' l-Faqih of Shaikh Saduq
  3. Tahdhibu 'l-Ahkam by Tusi
  4. al-Istibsar by Tusi

Ibadi collections:

  • al-Jami' as-Sahih by al-Rabi' ibn Habib
  • Tartib al-Musnad by al-Warijlani
Sunni collections
Shi'a collections
Mu'tazili collections

Genealogies of the Nobles (Arabic: أنساب الأشراف; transliterated: Ansab al-Ashraf) is a history book related to Islam, authored by Ahmad Ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri (d. 892 CE).

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This was the second great historical work of al-Baladhuri, of which he is said to have written forty parts when he died. Of this work the eleventh book has been published by Wilhelm Ahlwardt (Greifswald, 1883), and another part is known in manuscript (see Journal of the German Oriental Society [Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft], vol. xxxviii, pp. 382-406) [1].

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  1. ^ Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

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