2. • Muhammad ibn Jarir ibn Yazid ibn Kathir, Abu Ja`far al-Tabari (d.
310), one of the major mujtahid Imams and the founder of a school of
Law which remained for 150 years after his death, then disappeared.
He is the author of
• a massive commentary on the Qur'an;
• an equally large universal history;
• a biographical history entitled Tarikh al-Rijal;
• an encyclopedia of jurisprudence entitled al-Basit and
• a medium-sized work entitled Latif al-Qawl fi Ahkam Shara'i` al-Islam, which he
abridged into a smaller work;
• a book on the dialects and sciences of the Qur'an entitled al-Qira'at wa al-Tanzil wa al-
`Adad;
• the unfinished book of al-Fada'il on the immense merits of the Companions;
• al-Manasik on the rituals of Pilgrimage;
3. •Sharh al-Sunna ("Explanation of the Sunna");
•al-Musnad ("Narrations With Uninterrupted Chains");
•the unfinished Tahdhib al-Athar ("Classification of
Transmitted Reports");
•Tabsir Uli al-Nahi ("Admonishment for the Wise") for the
people of Tabaristan;
•Ma`alim al-Huda ("Sign-Posts of Guidance");
•Ikhtilaf al-Fuqaha' ("The Differences Among the Jurists");
•Tartib al-`Ulama' ("Classification of the Scholars of
Knowledge") etc.
• Al-Dhahabi praises the latter book and mentions that al-Tabari begins it with the rules of
conduct for the purification of the self and the sayings of the Sufis.
7. •Aʿlām al-Ḥadīth fī Sharḥ Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, by ʿAllāmah
Khaṭṭābī ( 388 AH) (raḥimahullāh). It is the first
commentary to be written on some of the ḥadīths of
Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī and is published and available online.
Dr. Muḥammad ibn Saʿd Āl Saʿūd has conducted taḥqīq
(research) on it which has been published in four
volumes by At-Turāth al-Islāmī. This commentary is also
published with the title, Aʿlām as-Sunan fī Sharḥ Ṣaḥīḥ
al-Bukhārī by Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyyah (DKI) in two
volumes.
8. •In this commentary, Imām Khaṭṭābī (raḥimahullāh)
discusses the correct spelling and vowelisation of the
words of the ḥadīths at length and supports his
discussion with many proofs from the Arabic language.
He relied on the transmission of Imām Nasafī from the
beginning of the book until the beginning of Kitāb at-
Tafsīr. Thereafter, he relied on the transmission of Imām
Firabrī until Kitāb al-Fitan. He only commented on some
chapters of the Ṣaḥīḥ, and in those chapters, he omitted
some ḥadīths and only retained those that mention
ambiguities and require clarification.
9. •Overall, his commentary is a lughawī (lexical)
commentary. Lastly, there is a link between this
commentary of his, and his other commentary titled,
Maʿālim as-Sunan, as Imām Khaṭṭābī (raḥimahullāh)
considers this commentary of his to complete the other.
• Al Khattabi Sharh Bukhari I’lam al-Hadith
10. •List of the Hadith Commentary Works
• Commentary Works of Sahih al-Bukhari
