Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani

Works

• The Hilyat al-awliya' is a substantial work in ten volumes, comprising a total of 650 biographies, amounting to about 4,000 pages in the printed edition. The work includes many biographies of early Islam. Most biographies of individuals that are directly involved with the development of Sufi mysticism are found in the tenth volume.
• Al-Arba`în `alâ Madhhab al-Mutahaqqiqîn min al-Sûfiyya, in print
• Dalâ'il al-Nubuwwa, devoted entirely to the person of the Prophet Muhammad, this large work - partly in print - was expanded by al-Bayhaqî to seven volumes in a like-titled work.
• Dhikr Akhbâr Asbahân, in print
• Al-Du`afâ', in print
• Fadâ'il al-Khulafâ' al-Arba`a wa Ghayrihim, in print
• Fadîlat al-`Adilîn min al-Wulât, a collection of over forty narrations on just government and the duties of the governed towards the rulers. Al-Sakhâwî documented each narration in detail and both the work and its documentation were published.
• Juz` fî Turuq Hadîth Inna Lillâhi Tis`atun wa Tis`îna Isman, in print
• Al-Mahdî.
• Ma`rifat al-Sahâba wa Fadâ'ilihim, in print. This book was the basis of subsequent similar works by Ibn `Abd al-Barr, Ibn al-Athîr, and Ibn Hajar.
• Musnad al-Imâm Abî Hanîfa, in print
• Al-Mustakhraj `alâ al-Bukhârî, in print
• Al-Mustakhraj `alâ Muslim, in print
• Riyâdat al-Abdân, in print
• Al-Shu`arâ'.
• Al-Sifât. Al-Suyûtî mentioned it in his commentary on Sûrat al-Nâs in his book al-Iklîl fî Istinbât al-Tanzîl.
• Sifat al-Janna, in print
• Tabaqât al-Muhaddithîn wal-Ruwât.
• Tasmiyatu mâ Intahâ ilaynâ min al-Ruwât `an al-Fadl ibn Dukayn `Aliyan, in print
• Tasmiyatu mâ Intahâ ilaynâ min al-Ruwât `an Sa`îd ibn Mansûr `Aliyan, in print
• Tathbît al-Imâma wa Tartîb al-Khilâfa, in print, a refutation of Shî`ism.
• Al-Tibb al-Nabawî.