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This is a list of significant books in the doctrines of Sunni Islam. A classical example of an index of Islamic books can be found in Kitāb al-Fihrist of Ibn Al-Nadim.

1. The Noble Qur'an by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan and Shaykh Taqi ud din al Hilali^[1]
2. The Meaning of the Glorious Koran by Marmaduke Pickthall
3. The Holy Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commentary by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
4. The Qur'an: A New Translation by Muhammad A. S. Abdel Haleem^[2][3]
5. The Clear Quran: A Thematic English Translation by Dr. Mustafa Khattab^[4][5]
6. The Holy Qur'án (The treasure of faith) by Professor Shah Faridul Haque^[6][7]
7. Bridges' Translation of the Ten Qira'at of the Noble Qur'an by Fadel Soliman^[8][9]

The most authoritative collections of Hadith are called The Six Books.

1. Sahih al-Bukhari - compiled by Muhammad al-Bukhari
2. Sahih Muslim - compiled by Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj
3. Al-Sunan al-Sughra - compiled by Al-Nasa'i
4. Sunan Abi Dawud - compiled by Abu Dawood
5. Sunan al-Tirmidhi - compiled by Al-Tirmidhi
6. Sunan ibn Majah - compiled by Ibn Majah

1. Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik ibn Anas
2. Kitab al-Athar of Imam Muhammad al-Shaybani
3. Musnad of Imam Shafi‘i
4. Musannaf of ‘Abd ar-Razzaq as-San‘ani
5. Musannaf of Ibn Abi Shaybah
6. Musnad of Ishaq Ibn Rahwayh
7. Musnad^[10] of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal
8. Sunan of al-Darimi
9. Al-Adab al-Mufrad of Muhammad al-Bukhari
10. Musnad of Abu Bakr Ahmad al-Bazzar
11. Musnad of Abu Ya'la al-Mawsili
12. Tahdhib al-Athar of Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari
13. Sahih of Ibn Khuzaymah
14. Sahih of Ibn Hibban
15. Al-Mu'jam al-Kabeer by al-Tabarani
16. Sunan of Al-Daraqutni
17. Al-Mustadrak ala al-Sahihayn of Al-Hakim al-Nishapuri
18. Sunan al-Kubra of Al-Bayhaqi
19. Shu'ab al-Iman of Al-Bayhaqi
20. Al-Sunan al-Wusta of Al-Bayhaqi

These were compiled from the primary collections.

1. Musnad al-Firdous^[11] of Abu Mansur Al-Dailami
2. At-Targhib wat-Tarhib of Al-Mundhiri
3. Riyadh as-Saaliheen of Imam al-Nawawi
4. Mishkat al-Masabih^[12] by Khatib Al-Tabrizi
5. Talkhis al-Mustadrak^[13] by al-Dhahabi
6. Majma al-Zawa'id by Ali ibn Abu Bakr al-Haythami
7. Bulugh al-Maram by Ibn Hajar Asqalani
8. Jami’ Jawami’ by Al-Suyuti
9. Kanz al-Ummal by Ali ibn Abd-al-Malik al-Hindi
10. Hisn al-Muslim by Sa'id bin Ali bin Wahf Al-Qahtani

1. Fath al-Bari of Ibn Hajar Asqalani (the most authoritative commentary)
2. Sharh Sunan Abi Dawood by Al-Khattabi^[14]
3. Aridat al-Ahwadhi bi-Sharh Sahih al-Tirmidhi by Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi^[15]
4. Kitab al-Qabas fi Sharh Muwatta Malik by Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi^[16]
5. al-Ishraf of Awn ad-Din ibn Hubayra
6. Al-Mawduʿat al-Kubra by Ibn al-Jawzi
7. Al Minhaj bi Sharh Sahih Muslim of Al-Nawawi
8. Commentary on Al-Nawawi's Forty Hadith by Ibn Daqiq al-'Id
9. Jami al-Masanid Wa al-Sunan by Ibn Kathir
10. Jami al-Ulum wal-Hikam of Ibn Rajab
11. Umdat al-Qari of Badr al-Din al-Ayni
12. Irshad al-Sari of al-Qastallani
13. Mirqat al-Mafatih Sharh Mishkat al-masabih by Ali al-Qari
14. Sharh Sunan An-Nasaai of Al-Suyuti and As-Sindi^[17]
15. Annotations Sunan Abi Dawood of Al-Suyuti^[18]
16. Fayd al-Qadir by Al-Munawi
17. Silsalat al-Hadith ad-Da'ifah by Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani

1. Introduction to the Science of Hadith (Muqaddimah fi Ulum al-Ḥadith) by Ibn al-Salah
2. Some of the works of al-Madini
3. Tawil Mukhtalif al-Hadith by Ibn Qutaybah
4. Gharib al-Hadith by Al-Khattabi
5. al-Kifaya fi ma'rifat usul 'ilm al-riwaya by Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi^[19]
6. al-Ilma ila Maʿrifa Usul al-Riwaya wa Taqyid al-Samaʿ by Qadi Ayyad
7. Al-Muqizah fi 'Ilm Mustalah al-Hadith by Al-Dhahabi
8. Alfiyatu Iraaqee by Zain al-Din al-'Iraqi^[20]
9. Muqaddimah al-Badr al-Munir by Ibn al-Mulaqqin
10. Nukhbat al-Fikar by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
11. Al-Maqasid al-Hasanah by Al-Sakhawi^[21]
12. Alfiyyah al-Hadit by Al-Suyuti^[22]
13. Tadrib al-Rawi by Al-Suyuti^[23]

1. Tafsir al-Tabari by Al-Tabari
2. Tafsir al-Maturidi by Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
3. Tafsir al-Thalabi by Al-Tha'labi
4. Kashf al-Asrār wa ʿUddat al-Abrār by Rashīd al-Dīn Maybudī^[24]
5. Tafsir al-Baghawi by Al-Baghawi
6. Ahkam al-Qur'an by Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi
7. Al-Muharrar al-Wajiz by Ibn 'Atiyya^[25]
8. Zad al-Masir fi Ilm al-Tafsir by Ibn al-Jawzi^[26]
9. Al-Tafsir al-Kabir (also known as: Mafatih al-Ghayb) by Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
10. Al-Taysir fi al-Tafsir by Abu Hafs Umar an-Nasafi
11. Al-Jami' li-Ahkam al-Qur'an by Al-Qurtubi
12. Tafsir al-Baydawi by Al-Baydawi
13. Al-Bahr al-Muhit by Abu Hayyan al-Gharnati
14. At-Tahsil li-'Ulumi al-Tanzil by Ibn Juzayy
15. Tafsir ibn Kathir by Ibn Kathir
16. Tafsir al-Jalalayn by Al-Mahalli and Al-Suyuti
17. Dur al-Manthur by Al-Suyuti

1. Tafsir as Sadi by Abdur Rahman Nasir as Sadi
2. Kanzul Iman by Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi
3. Al-Bahr al-Madid by Ahmad ibn Ajiba
4. Ruh al-Ma'ani by Mahmud al-Alusi
5. Bayan Ul Quran by Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanwi
6. Maariful Quran by Mufti Muhammad Shafi
7. Tafsir Tibyan-ul-Qur'an by Ghulam Rasool Saeedi
8. Tafsir-ul-Qur’an (also known as: Tafsir-e-Majidi) by Maulana Abdul Majid Daryabadi
9. Tafhim-ul-Quran by Syed Abul A'la Maududi
10. Anwar Ul Bayan by Mufti Muhammad Ashiq Ilahi Bulandshahri
11. A Thematic Commentary on the Qur'an by Muhammad al-Ghazali^[27]
12. Zubdat al-itqān fī ‘ulūm al-Qur’ān by Muhammad 'Alawi al-Maliki
13. The Meanings of the Noble Qur’an (with Explanatory Notes) by Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani

1. Al-Fiqh al-Akbar by Abu Hanifa
2. Al-Risala by Al-Shafi'i
3. Kitab al-Iman by Abu Bakr Ibn Abi Shaybah
4. Usul al-Sunnah by Ahmad Ibn Hanbal
5. Al-Radd 'ala al-Jahmiyyah wa al-Zanadaqah by Ahmad Ibn Hanbal
6. Nawadir al-Usul by Al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi
7. Khalq Afal al-Ibad by al-Bukhari
8. al-Ikhtilāf fī al-Lafz wa al-Radd ‘alā al-Jahmiyyah wal-Mushabbiha by Ibn Qutaybah
9. Kitab al-Sunnah by Harb Ibn Ismail al-Kirmani
10. Kitab al-Sunnah by Abdullah Ibn Ahmad Ibn Hanbal
11. Kitab at-Tawheed by Ibn Khuzaymah
12. Al-Ha'iyah by Ibn Abi Dawud
13. Kitab al-Shariah by Abu Bakr al-Ajurri
14. Al-Aqidah al-Tahawiyyah by Al-Tahawi
15. Al-Maqālat al-Islamiyyīn by Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari
16. Al-Ibanah an Usul al-Diyanah by Al-Ash'ari
17. Kitab al-Tawhid by Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
18. Al-Sawad al-A'zam by Al-Hakim al-Samarqandi
19. Kitab al-Thiqat by Ibn Hibban
20. Al-Sunnah by Al-Tabarani
21. Al-Shari'ah by Abu Bakr Al-Ajurri
22. Al-Mutalif wa al-Mukhtalif by Al-Daraqutni
23. Al-Risala al-Qayrawaniyya by Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani
24. Al-Ibaanah by Ibn Battah
25. Al-Sunnah by Ibn Manda
26. Al-Iman by Ibn Manda
27. I'tiqad Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jama'ah by Abu al-Qasim Hibat Allah al-Lalakai
28. Al-Farq bayn al-Firaq by Abu Mansur Al-Baghdadi
29. Hilyat al-awliya by Abu Nu`aym
30. Al-Arba`in ala Madhhab al-Mutahaqqiqin min al-Sufiyya by Abu Nu`aym
31. Aqidah al-Salafi Ahl al-Hadith by Al-Sabuni
32. Al-Asma' wa al-Sifat by Al-Bayhaqi
33. Al-Durrah fi ma Yazibu Itiqaduhu by Ibn Hazm al-Andalusi
34. Al-I'tqaad alaa Madhabis-Salaf Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaah by Al-Bayhaqi
35. Hayat ul Anbiya fi Quboor by Al-Bayhaqi
36. Al-Ishara ila Madhhab Ahl al-Haqq by Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi^[28]
37. Kashf ul Mahjoob by Ali Hujwiri
38. Al-Irshad 'ila Qawati' al-Adilla fi Usul al-I'tiqad by Al-Juwayni
39. Al-Aqida al-Nizamiyya by Al-Juwayni
40. Ihya' Ulum al-Din by Al-Ghazali
41. Al-Iqtisad fi al-I'tiqad by Al-Ghazali
42. Iljam al-Awwam fi Ilm al-Kalam by Al-Ghazali
43. Tabsirat al-Adilla by Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi
44. Talkhis al-Adilla li-Qawa'id al-Tawhid by Abu Ishaq al-Saffar al-Bukhari
45. Al-Aqaid al-Nasafiyya by Umar Ibn Muhammad al-Nasafi
46. Al-Milal wa al-Nihal by Al-Shahrastani
47. Tartib al-Madarik wa takrib al-Masalik by Qadi Ayyad
48. al-I`lam bi Hudud Qawa'id al-Islam by Qadi Ayyad
49. Daqa`iq al-akhbar fi dhikr al-janna wa-l-nar by Qadi Ayyad
50. Al-Ghunya li-Talibi Tariq al-Haqq by Shaykh Abdul Qadir Gilani
51. Al-Fath ar-Rabbani by Shaykh Abdul Qadir Gilani
52. Al-Baz al-Ashhab by Ibn al-Jawzi
53. Lum'ah al-I'tiqad by Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi
54. Al-Aqīdah Al-Wasitiyyah by Ibn Taymiyyah
55. Kitab al-Iman by Ibn Taymiyya
56. Nur al-Mubin by Ibn Jazayy al-Kalbi al-Gharnati al-Maliki
57. Kitab ar-Ruh by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya
58. Sharh al-Aqaid al-Nasafiyya by al-Taftazani
59. Sharh Al-Aqīdah At-Tahawiyyah by Ibn Abi al-Izz al-Hanafi
60. Al-Aqidah al-Sanusiyya by Al-Sanusi
61. Kitab al-Tawhid by Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali
62. Sharh Fiqh al-Akbar by Mulla Ali Al-Qari al-Hanafi
63. Maktubat Imam Rabbani by Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi (Mujaddid Alf-e-Saani)
64. Akhbar al-Akhyar by Shaykh Abdul-Haqq Muhaddith Dehlavi
65. Takmīl al-Iman by Shaykh Abdul-Haqq Muhaddith Dehlavi
66. Hujjat Allah al-Baligha by Shah Waliullah Dehlawi
67. Al-Kharida al-Bahia by Ahmad al-Dardir
68. Nayl al-Awtar by Al-Shawkani
69. Risale-i Nur by Bediüzzaman Said Nursi
70. Maut Ka Manzar by Khawaja Muhammad Islam

1. Usul al-fiqh by Abu Yusuf (d. 182 AH)
2. Ẓāhir al-Riwāyah of Abu Hanifa, Abu Yusuf and Muhammad al-Shaybani
3. Mukhtasar Al Quduri by Aḥmad Ibn-Muḥammad al-Qudūrī (d. 428 AH)
4. Al-Hidayah by Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani (d. 593 AH)
5. Al Mabsut by Al-Sarakhsi (d. 483 AH)
6. Multaqa al-Abḥur by Ibrāhīm al-Ḥalabī (d. 956 AH)
7. Al-Bahr al-Raiq Sharh Kanz ul-Daqaiq^[29] by Ibn Nujaim al-Hanafi (d. 969 AH)^[30]
8. Tuḥfat al-Mubtadī by Ibrāhīm bin Ḥasan al-Mullā al-Aḥsāʿī (d. 1048 AH)
9. Fath Ar-Rahman Fi Isbat-e-Madhhab an-Nu'man by Abdul-Haqq Dehlavi (d. 1052 AH)
10. Nur al-Idah by Abul-Ikhlāṣ Ḥasan ash-Shurunbulālī (d. 1069 AH)
11. Marāqī as-Saʿādāt by Abul-Ikhlāṣ Ḥasan ash-Shurunbulālī
12. Durr ul-Mukhtar by Muhammad Ala ad-Din Haskafi (d. 1088 AH)
13. Radd al-Muhtar ala al-Dur al-Mukhtar by Ibn Abidin (d. 1252 AH)
14. Iṣlāḥ ʿIlm al-Ḥāl by Amīn Jundī
15. Majallah al-Aḥkām al-ʿAdlīyah compiled by the Ottoman Empire
16. Hukuki İslamiye ve Istılahı Fıkhiyye Kamus by Ömer Nasuhi Bilmen

1. Fatawa Aziz by Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi
2. Fatawa-e-Alamgiri commissioned by the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb
3. Fatawa-e-Razvia by Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi

1. Kitab al-Umm by ash-Shafi'i
2. Mukhtaṣar al-Muzanī^[31] by Al-Muzani
3. Mukhtaṣar al-Buwayṭi by Al-Buwayti
4. Al-Ikhtiyarat al-Fiqhiya by Al-Khattabi^[32]
5. Al-Mabsūṭ by Al-Bayhaqi
6. Al-Tanbih fi al-Fiqh al-Shafi'i by Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi^[33]
7. Al-Muhadhdhab fi Fiqh al-Imam al-Shafi'i by Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi^[34]
8. Al-Luma' fi Usul al-Fiqh by Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi^[35]
9. Nihayat al-Matlab fi Dirayat al-Madhhab by Al-Juwayni
10. Al-Burhan Fi Usul al-Fiqh by Al Juwayni
11. Al-wajiz fi fiqh al-imam al-shafi’i by Al-Ghazali
12. Al-mustasfa min 'ilm al-usul by Al-Ghazali
13. Al Muntakhab Mina al-Mahsul fi Usul-al-Fiqh by Fakhr al-Din al-Razi^[36]
14. Al-Ghayah fi Ikhtisar al-Nihayah by Izz al-Din ibn 'Abd al-Salam^[37]
15. Al Qawa'id al-Kubra by Izz al-Din ibn 'Abd al-Salam^[38]
16. Al-Maqāṣid by Al-Nawawi
17. Minhāj aṭ-Ṭalibīn by Al-Nawawi
18. Tabaqat ash-Shafi'iyah by Taj al-Din al-Subki^[39]
19. Tashih al-Minhaj by Siraj al-Din al-Bulqini^[40]
20. Umdat ul-Muhtaj ila Sharh al-Minhaj by Ibn al-Mulaqqin^[41]
21. Kanz al-Raghibin by Al-Mahalli^[42]
22. Al-Ashbaahu Wan-Nadhaair by Al-Suyuti^[43]
23. Tuhfah AL-Muhtaj Bi Sharh Al-Minhaj by Ibn Hajar al-Haytami^[44]
24. Al-Manhaj al-Qawim bi Sharh Masa-il at-Ta'lim by Ibn Hajar al-Haytami^[45]
25. Umdat al-Salik wa Uddat al-Nasik by Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri
26. Fatḥ al-Muʿīn by Zayn ad-Din Ahmed al-Malibari

1. Al Mudawanna by Sahnun
2. Al Risalah by Ibn Abi Zayd Al-Qayrawani
3. Works of Ibn 'Abd al-Barr
4. Works of Qadi Ayyad
5. Bidayat al-Mujtahid wa Nihayat al-Muqtaṣid by Ibn Rushd
6. Works of Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi
7. Al-Madkhal by Ibn al-Hajj al-Abdari
8. Mukhtasar by Khalil ibn Ishaq al-Jundi
9. Al-Muwafaqaat fi Usool al-Sharia by Al-Shatibi

1. Masāʾil of Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d. 241 AH)
2. Wadih fi Uṣūl al-Fiqh by Ibn Aqil (d. 513 AH)
3. Futūh al-Ghayb by Abdul-Qadir Gilani (d. 561 AH)
4. Muthīr al-Gharām al-Sākin ilā Ashraf al-Amākin by Ibn al-Jawzi (d. 597 AH)
5. ʿUmdat al-Fiqh by Ibn Qudamah (d. 620 AH)
6. al-Muqniʿ by Ibn Qudamah
7. Al-Mughnī by Ibn Qudamah
8. Al-Kaafi by Ibn Qudamah
9. Kitab al-Furu by Ibn Muflih (d. 763 AH)
10. Zād al-Mustaqniʿ by Al-Hajjawi (d. 968 AH)
11. Dalīl al-Ṭālib by Marʿī bin Yūsuf al-Karmī (d. 1033 AH)
12. Muntahā al-Irādāt by al-Bahūtī (d. 1051 AH)
13. ʿUmdat al-Ṭālib by al-Bahūtī
14. Kashshāf al-Qināʿ by al-Bahūtī
15. Akhṣar al-Mukhtaṣarāt by Ibn Balban (d. 1083 AH)
16. Bidāyat al-ʿĀbid by ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān al-Ba’lī (d. 1110 AH)
17. Al-Ajwibat al-Jaliyyah by Mūsā al-Qaddumi (d. 1265 AH)

1. Sīrat Rasūl Allāh Sallalahu 'alaihi Wa Salam by Ibn Ishaq
2. Al-Sirah Al-Nabawiyyah by Ibn Hisham
3. Ash-Shifa by Qadi Ayyad
4. Al-Rawḍ al-unuf by Al-Suhayli (a commentary of Al-Sirah Al-Nabawiyyah)
5. Al-Wafa bi Ahwal al-Mustafa Sallallahu 'alaihi Wa Salam by Ibn al-Jawzi
6. Zad al-Ma'ad by Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
7. Al-Sīrah al-Nabawīyyah Sallallahu 'alaihi Wa Salam (4 Volume Set) by Ibn Kathir
8. Al-Khasa'is al-Kubra by Al-Suyuti
9. Al-Muwahib al-Ladunniyyah by Al-Qastallani
10. Al-Naimat-ul-Kubra Ala al-Alam by Ibn Hajar al-Haytami
11. Sharh al-Shifa by Ali al-Qari (a commentary of Ash-Shifa Sallallahu 'alaihi Wa Salam)
12. Madarij an-Nabuwwat by 'Abd al-Haqq al-Dehlawi
13. Seerat E Rasool Sallallahu 'alaihi Wa Salam by Shah Waliullah Dehlawi
14. Seeratul Mustafa Sallallahu 'alaihi Wa Salam by Muhammad Idris Kandhlawi
15. Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum by Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri
16. Seerat Khatam al-Anbiya by Shafi Usmani

1. Dala'il al-Nubuwwah by Al-Bayhaqi

1. Al-Shama'il al-Muhammadiyya by Al-Tirmidhi

1. Jamharah Ansāb al-ʿArab by Hisham ibn al-Kalbi (d.819 AD)
2. Book of Idols by Hisham ibn al-Kalbi (d.819 AD)
3. Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr by Ibn Sa'd (d.845 AD)
4. Kitab Ma'rifat al-Sahaba by Al-Madini (d.849 AD)
5. Kitab al-Fada'il Sahaba by Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d.855 AD)
6. The Great History by Muhammad al-Bukhari (d.870 AD)
7. Fath al-Buldan by Ahmad ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri (d.892 AD)
8. Genealogies of the Nobles (book) by Ahmad Ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri (d.892 AD)
9. Tarikh at-Tabari by Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (d.923 AD)
10. Tarikh E Masoodi by Al-Masudi (d.956 AD)
11. Works of Ahmad ibn Fadlan (d.960 AD)
12. Al-Kāmil fi Ḍuʿafāʾ ar-Rijāl^[46] by Ibn 'Adi al-Jurjani (d.976 AD)
13. History of Nishapur by Al-Hakim al-Nishapuri (d.1014 AD)
14. Hilyat al-Awliya by Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani (d.1038 AD)
15. Tabaqat al-Hanabilah by Al-Qadi Abu Ya'la (d.1066 AD) and Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali (d.1393 AD)
16. History of Baghdad by Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi (d.1071 AD)
17. Al-Istiʿāb by Ibn Abd-al-Barr (d.1071 AD)
18. History of Damascus by Ibn `Asakir (d.1176 AD)
19. Al-Kamal fi Asma' al-Rijal by Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi (d.1203 AD)
20. Chach Nama by Kazi Ismail al-Thakafi & Ali bin Ḥamid Kufi (written in 1226 AD)
21. Mu'jam Al-Buldan by Yaqut al-Hamawi (d.1229 AD)
22. The Complete History by Ali ibn al-Athir (d.1233 AD)
23. Usd al-ghabah fi marifat al-Saḥabah by Ali ibn al-Athir (d.1233 AD)
24. Tabaqat-i Nasiri by Minhaj-i-Siraj (written in 1260 AD)
25. Deaths of Eminent Men and the Sons of the Epoch by Ibn Khallikan (d.1282 AD)
26. Ar Riyadh un Nadhra^[47] by Muhibuddin Tabri (d.1295 AD)
27. Minah al-madh by Fatḥ al-Din Ibn Sayyid al-Nās (d.1334 AD)
28. Mizan al-Itidal by al-Dhahabi (d.1348 AD)
29. al-Bidayah wan-Nihayah by Ibn Kathir (d.1373 AD)
30. Qisas Al-Anbiya by Ibn Kathir (d.1373 AD)
31. Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun (d.1406 AD)
32. Tahdhib al-Tahdhib by Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani (d.1449 AD)
33. History of the Caliphs by Al-Suyuti (d.1505 AD)
34. Wafa al-Wafa by Ali ibn Ahmad al-Samhudi (d.1533 AD)
35. Habib al-Siyar by Ghiyās̲ ad-Dīn Khvāndamīr (d. 1534-37 AD)
36. Tarikh Khamis by Husayn ibn Muhammad Diyarbakri (d.1559 AD)
37. Tarikh-i Firishta by Muhammad Qasim Firishta (d.1620 AD)
38. Sirat al-Halbiya by Ali Ibn Burhan-ud-din Halbi (d.1635 AD)
39. Tariqh-e Haqqi by Abdul-Haqq Dehlavi (d.1642 AD)
40. Al Insaf fi Bayan Asbab Al Iktikaaf by Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (d.1762 AD)
41. Sirush Shahadhathayn by Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi (d.1824 AD)

• Hilyat al-Awliya' by Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani (d. 430 AH)
• Ṣifat al-Ṣafwwah [ar] by Ibn al-Jawzi (d. 597 AH)
• Siyar A'lam al-Nubala' by Al-Dhahabi (d. 748 AH)
• Tabaqat al-Shafi'iyya al-Kubra by Taj al-Din al-Subki (d. 771/1370)

1. Risalah al-Mustarshidin (Treatise for the Seekers of Guidance) by Harith al-Muhasibi (d. 243 AH)

1. ʿUyūb al-nafs wa adwiyātuhā (Infamies of The Soul And Their Treatments) by Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Muḥammad al-Sulamī al-Nīshāpūri (d. 412 AH)
2. Ṭibb al-Rūḥāni by Ibn al-Jawzi (d. 597 AH)
3. Tanbih al-Mughtarin by Al-Sha'rani (d. 973 AH)
4. Maṭharat al-Qulūb by Muḥammad al-Mawlūd (d. 1323 AH)

1. Al-Da'awat al-Kabir by Al-Bayhaqi
2. Hizb al-Bahr by Abul Hasan ash-Shadhili
3. Kitab al-Adhkar by Al-Nawawi
4. Al-Wabil al-Sayyib by Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
5. Dala'il al-Khayrat by Muhammad al-Jazuli
6. Al-Hizb ul-Azam by Ali al-Qari

1. Al-Adab al-Mufrad of Muhammad al-Bukhari (d. 256 AH)
2. Al-Akhlāq wa al-Siyar by Ibn Hazm (d. 456 AH)
3. Fuṣul al-Adab wa Makarim al-Akhlaq al-Mashruʿah by Ibn Aqil (d. 513 AH)

1. Kitab az-Zuhd wa al-Raqa'iq by Ibn al-Mubarak (d. 189 AH)
2. Kitab al-Zuhd by Ahmad ibn Hanbal
3. Al-Zuhd al-Kabir by Al-Bayhaqi

1. al-Arba'in fi 'l-tasawwuf by Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Muḥammad al-Sulamī al-Nīshāpūri
2. Qut al-qulub (Sustenance of the Hearts) by Abu Talib al-Makki (d. 386 AH)
3. Al-Arba`in ala Madhhab al-Mutahaqqiqin min al-Sufiyya by Abu Nu`aym (d. 430 AH)
4. Al-Risala al-Qushayriyya by Abu al-Qasim al-Qushayri (d. 465 AH)
5. Kashf ul Mahjoob by Ali Hujwiri (d. 465 AH)
6. Tazkirat al-Awliya by Attar of Nishapur (d. 617 AH)
7. Maktubat Imam Rabbani by Mujaddid Alf-e-Saani Ahmad Sirhindi (d. 1034 AH)

1. Hayat ul Anbiya fi Quboor by Al-Bayhaqi (d. 458 AH)
2. Ihya Ulum al-Din by Al-Ghazali (d. 505 AH)
3. Kimiya-yi sa'ādat by Al-Ghazali (d. 505 AH)
4. Al-Fath ar-Rabbani by Shaykh Abdul-Qadir Gilani (d. 561 AH)
5. Al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya by Ibn Arabi (d. 638 AH)
6. al-Mufassal fi 'Ahkam al-Mar'ah wa Bayt al-Muslim fi al-Shari'at al-Islamiyyah by Abdul Karim Zaidan (d. 2014 CE)

1. Saife Chishtiyai^[48] by Meher Ali Shah
2. Signs of Qiyamah and the Arrival of Maseeh by Muhammad Shafi
3. Finality of the Prophethood by Muhammad Shafi

1. Al-Awasim min al-Qawasim by Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi
2. Al-Sawa'iq al-Muhriqah by Ibn Hajar al-Haytami
3. Taufa Ithna Ashari by Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi

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