"Tahthib Al-Kamal fi Asma' Al-rijal" () is a book by

Jamal al-Din al-Mizzi Jamāl al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥajjāj Yūsuf ibn al-Zakī ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yūsuf ibn ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Yūsuf al-Kalbī al-Quḍā'ī al-Mizzī, (), also called Al-Ḥāfiẓ Abī al-Ḥajjāj, was a Syrian muhaddith and the foremost `Ilm ...

(654-742 AH), where he refined, revised, and added upon the work of

Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi Abd al-Ghani ibn Abd al-Wahid al-Maqdisi (; 11461203) was a classical Sunni Islamic scholar and a prominent hadith master. He was born in 1146 CE (541 AH) in the village of Jummail in Palestine. He studied with scholars in Damascus; many of whom w ...

in his book

Al-Kamal fi Asma' al-Rijal ''Al-Kamal fi Asma' al-Rijal'' () is a collection of biographies of hadith narrators within the Islamic discipline of biographical evaluation by the 12th-century Islamic scholar Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi. Overview The author collected in this bo ...

. It contains biographies of

hadith Hadith is the Arabic word for a 'report' or an 'account f an event and refers to the Islamic oral tradition of anecdotes containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the Islamic prophet Muhammad or his immediate circle ...

narrators from the

six major hadith collections (), also known as () are the six canonical hadith collections of Sunni Islam. They were all compiled in the 9th and early 10th centuries, roughly from 840 to 912 CE and are thought to embody the Sunnah of Muhammad. The books are the of al ...

, evaluating their reliability and contributions. The book is an important resource in the field of

biographical evaluation Biographical evaluation (; literally meaning'' 'Knowledge of Men', ''but more commonly understood as the ''Science of Narrators)'' refers to a discipline of Islamic religious studies within hadith terminology in which the narrators of hadith are ...

within Islamic studies.

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While the book 'Al-Kamal' limited itself to mentioning the men of the Six Books, Al-Mizzi went further and supplemented what al-Maqdisi had missed of the narrators of these books, He scrutinized those mentioned and removed some who did not meet his criteria, and they were few. Then, he added to his book the narrators who appeared in some of the works he had selected from the authors of the Six Books. Thus, he increased the original biographies by more than seventeen hundred. Al-Mizzi also added to most of the original biographies new historical material about the teachers of the subject of the biography, his students, what was said about him in terms of criticism, correction, or authentication, the date of his birth or death, and so on, so that most of the biographies expanded greatly.Bashar Awwad Maarouf, Introduction to Tahdib Al-Kamal, Al-Risalah publishers, Vol.1, page 149 After all this, Al-Mazi added four important chapters to the end of his book, which the author of 'Al-Kamal' did not mention: * A chapter on those who were famous in relation to their father, grandfather, mother, uncle, or the like. * A chapter on those who were famous in relation to a tribe, city, profession, or the like. * A chapter on those who were famous by a nickname or similar. * A chapter on the ambiguous.

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{{Sunni hadith literature Books of Sunni Rijal Hadith narrators Sunni literature Religious biographical dictionaries

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