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Approximation of refinement

تقريب التهذيب

Author: أبو الفضل أحمد بن علي بن محمد بن أحمد بن حجر العسقلاني (المتوفى: 852هـ) (d. 852)

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تقريب التهذيب هو كتاب من كتب الجرح والتعديل، ألفه الحافظ ابن حجر العسقلاني (773-852)، حيث أن المؤلف ألف كتابه تهذيب التهذيب وهو اختصار لتهذيب الكمال للحافظ المزي، ثم قام ابن حجر باختصار تهذيبه بهذا الكتاب تقريب التهذيب، وتتمثل أهمية الكتاب بأنه دليل متكامل بأسماء رواة كتب الأحاديث النبوية الشريفة الستة، وقد اقتصر فيه ابن حجر على اسم المترجم له مختصرا، ودرجة توثيقه، ووظيفته، والعلامات التي ذكرها له المزي، وتميز الكتاب بأنه ذكر مؤلفات أصحاب الكتب الستة، ولخص الكلام على الراوي بعبارة قصيرة جامعة محررة.

Translation

Tahdheeb al-Tahdheeb is one of the books of al-Jarh wa al-Ta'dil, written by Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (773-852). The author wrote his book Tahdheeb al-Tahdheeb, which is an abbreviation of Tahdheeb al-Kamal by al-Hafiz al-Mizzi. Then Ibn Hajar summarized his Tahdheeb with this book, Tahdheeb al-Tahdheeb. The importance of the book is that it is a complete guide with the names of the narrators of the six noble books of the Prophet’s hadiths. Ibn Hajar restricted it to the name of its translator briefly, and the degree of its authentication. And his job, and the signs that Al-Mizzi mentioned to him, and the book is distinguished in that it mentioned the works of the authors of the six books, and summarized the talk about the narrator in a short, comprehensive, edited phrase.

Topics covered

The letter Alif
A male named Ahmed
Mention the rest of the letter Alif to Ibrahim
A male named Ibrahim
He mentioned someone named Abi to someone named Ishaq
One male named Asad to another named Ismail
A male whose name is brown and black
A male whose name is Usayd begins with a hamza
A male whose name is Acid with ḍamma
A male from his name, Ashtar, until the last letter Alif
The letter b
Mention of his name with a sir with a ḍammah as its first, then a ḍammala with a sākinah - and Bastam and Bashar -
Mention of his name is blessed with a kasrah at the beginning and a sukun in the dictionary
A male named Bakr Mukaber
A male named Bakir Mughaghir
The letter ta
The letter thaa
The letter J
The letter H
He mentioned his name Hibban with Fatah, then Mawtahida
A male named Hibban with a kasra
Mention of his name [Husayl and] Al-Hussein
Mention the rest of the letter h
He mentioned his name Hakim with a fatha at the beginning
Mention of his name Hakim, with the beginning of the plural being four

تقريظ للحافظ ابن حجر العسقلاني على الرد الوافر