Editing Biographical evaluation (section)

== Collections of narrator biographies ==

===Sunni===

Collections of narrator biographies are sometimes general and sometimes specific to particular categories of narrators. Among the most common of these categories are:

====General evaluation====

*''[[The Great History]]'' by [[Muhammad al-Bukhari]].
*''al-Jarḥ wa al-Taʻdīl'' by Ibn Abi Hatim.

====Chronologically ordered====
=====Particular to a specific period of time=====
Books particular to the Companions:
*''[[Ali ibn al-Madini#Works|The Book of Knowledge about the Companions]]'' by [[Ali ibn al-Madini]].
*''[[Yusuf ibn abd al-Barr#Works|The Comprehensive Compilation of the Names of the Prophet's Companions]]'' by [[Yusuf ibn abd al-Barr]].
*''[[Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani#Works|Finding the Truth in Judging the Companinons]]'' by Ibn Ḥajr.
*''[[Ali ibn al-Athir#Works|The Lions of the Forest and the knowledge about the Companions]]'' by [[Ali ibn al-Athir]].

=====General chronology=====
*''Kitab al-`Ilal wa Ma‘rifat al-Rijal'': "The Book of Narrations Containing Hidden Flaws and of Knowledge of the Men (of Hadeeth)" by [[Ahmad ibn Hanbal]].
*''[[Ibn Sa'd al-Baghdadi#Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr|The Book of the Major Classes]]'' by [[Ibn Sa'd al-Baghdadi]].
*''[[Al-Dhahabi#Works|Tadhkirat al-huffaz]]'', ''The Memorial of the Hadith Masters'', a chronological history of hadith scholars' biographies by al-Dhahabi.
*''[[Mizan al-Itidal]]'' by [[al-Dhahabi]]
*''[[Lisan al-Mizan]]'' by [[Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani]], a reworking of Mizan al-'Itidal by al-Dhahabi.
*''Tahdhib al-Tahdhib'' by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
*''Taqrib al-Tahzib'' by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
*''[[Tarikh al-Islam al-kabir]]'' ({{lang|ar|تاريخ الإسلام}}) [https://archive.org/details/FP3938 'Great History of Islam' (50 vols., in Arabic)]; Ibn Hajar received it from Abu Hurayra ibn al-Dhahabi;<ref>Ibn Hajar, ''al-Mu`jam'' (p.400 #1773)</ref> comprising over 30,000 biographical records.<ref>Maxim Romanov, "Observations of a Medieval Quantitative Historian?" in ''Der Islam'', Volume 94, Issue 2, Page 464</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Dhahabī|first=Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad|author-link=Al-Dhahabi|title=Tārīkh al-Islām|place=Beirut|publisher=Dar al-Garb al-Islami|year=2003|language=ar|volume=17|url= https://archive.org/stream/FP105731/13_105743#page/n170/}}</ref>
*''[[Siyar a`lam al-nubala]]'' ({{lang|ar|سير أعلام النبلاء}}) ('The Lives of Noble Figures') by [[al-Dhahabi]], 28 volumes, a unique [[biographical dictionary|encyclopedia of biographical]] history.<ref>{{cite book|last=Dhahabī|first=Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad|author-link=Al-Dhahabi|title= Sīr al-a'lām al-nublā'|place=Beirut|year=1984|language=ar|volume=25|url=https://archive.org/stream/FP11950/}}</ref>

====Geographically specific====
*[[Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi#Works|''History of Baghdad'']] by [[Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi]].
*''[[Ibn Asakir#Works|History of Damascus]]'' by [[Ibn Asakir]].

==== Gender specific====
* ''[[Al-Wafa bi Asma al-Nisa]]'' by [[Akram Nadwi]]

====Evaluation of the narrators of specific books====
*''[[Al-Kamal fi Asma' al-Rijal]]'', by [[Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi]], is a collection of the biographies of the narrators of the hadith contained in the [[Six major Hadith collections]].
*''[[Tadhhib Tahdhib al-Kamal]]'' by al-Dhahabi; abridgement of [[Yusuf ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Mizzi|al-Mizzi's]] abridgement of [[Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi|al-Maqdisi]]'s ''[[Al-Kamal fi Asma' al-Rijal]]'', a biographical compendium of [[Ilm ar-Rijal|hadith narrators]] from the [[Six major Hadith collections]].

===Shi'i===

Early [[Shi'ite]] {{Transliteration|ar|rijāl}} collections include:<ref>Non-critical editions: {{cite book|editor1-last=al-Baghdādī|editor1-first=Ḥaydar Muḥammad ʿAlī|year=2012|title=Rijāl al-Barqī|location=Qom|publisher=Musʾassasat al-Imām al-Ṣādiq}} {{cite book|editor1-last=al-Iṣfahānī|editor1-first=Jawād al-Qayyūmī|year=2006|title=Ikhtiyār maʿrifat al-rijāl al-maʿrūf bi-rijāl al-Kashshī|location=Qom|publisher=Muʾassasat al-Nashr al-Islāmī}} {{cite book|editor1-last=al-Zanjānī|editor1-first=Mūsā al-Shabīrī|year=1997|title=Rijāl al-Najāshī|location=Qom|publisher=Muʾassasat al-Nashr al-Islāmī}} {{cite book|editor1-last=al-Ṭabāṭabāʾī|editor1-first=ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz|year=1999|title=Fihrist kutub al-shīʿa wa-uṣūlihim|location=Qom|publisher=Maktabat al-Muḥaqqiq al-Ṭabāṭabāʾī}} {{cite book|editor1-last=al-Iṣfahānī|editor1-first=Jawād al-Qayyūmī|year=1994|title=Rijāl al-Ṭūsī|location=Qom|publisher=Muʾassasat al-Nashr al-Islāmī}}</ref>

*{{Transliteration|ar|Rijāl al-Barqī}} ("al-Barqī's Men"), by [[Ahmad al-Barqi|Aḥmad al-Barqī]] (died c. 893)
*[[Ikhtiyar ma'rifat al-rijal|{{Transliteration|ar|Ikhtiyār maʿrifat al-rijāl}}]] ("The Selection of the Knowledge of the Men"): an [[abridgement]] made by [[Shaykh Tusi]] (995–1067 CE) from the {{Transliteration|ar|Rijāl al-Kashshī}} ("al-Kashshī's Men") by [[Muhammad ibn Umar al-Kashshi]] ({{circa}} 854–941/951)
*{{Transliteration|ar|Rijāl al-Najāshī}} ("al-Najāshī's Men"), by [[Ahmad ibn Ali al-Najashi|Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Najāshī]] (c. 982–1058)
*{{Transliteration|ar|Fihrist kutub al-shīʿa}} ("The Catalogue of the Books of the Shi'ites"), by Shaykh Tusi (995–1067 CE)
*{{Transliteration|ar|Rijāl al-Ṭūsī}} ("al-Ṭūsī's Men"), by Shaykh Tusi (995–1067 CE)