Dictionary of books

Translation

The book “Dictionary of Books” by Ibn al-Mubarrad is a comprehensive index of the works of a number of notables of the Hanbali school of thought. It begins with the works of Ibn al-Jawzi, Ibn Qudamah, and Sheikh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, and then deals with issues narrated on the authority of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, narrated by his students such as al-Tirmidhi, al-Nasa’i, and others, with brief biographies of the narrators and a statement of their deaths.