Katib Çelebi (d. 1067/1657), also known as Mustafa b. 'Abdullah Haji Khalifa, Kashf al-Zunun 'an Asami al-Kutub wa al-Funun, Calcutta, 1865. Also: Kitab Kashf al-zunun `an asami al-kutub wa al-funun, ed. Serefeddin Yaltkaya and Rifat Bilge, 2 vols., Istanbul: Maarif Matbaasi, 1941, 1943; repr. Istanbul: Milli Egitim, 1971.

It is a bibliography by title (usually, but sometimes also by topic; e.g., "`ilm al-hadith" under ha' gives a long survey of the science, then lists books by title treated more fully elsewhere) of all the books known to this Ottoman scholar, including very many now lost. (GaL 2:427; S 2:635). -CM

al-Kattani, Muhammad b. Ja'far, Al-Risala al-mustatrafa, 3rd ed., Damascus, 1964.

al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Abu Bakr Ahmad b. 'Ali, al-Kifaya fi 'ilm al-Hadith, Hyderabad, 1357. Also: al-Kifaya fi 'ilm al-riwaya, Hyderabad, 1970.

---, Taqyid al-'ilm, ed. Y. al-'Ush, 1975.

---, al-Faqih waal mutafaqqih, printed in Riyadh, 2 vols. Another edition: Kitab al-Faqih wa-al-mutafaqqih, ed. Isma`il al-Ansari, 2 vols. in 1, 2nd edn., n.p., Dar Ihya' al-Sunnah al-Nabawiyah, Damascus?, 1975.

---, al-Rihla, ed. by Samarra'i. Another edition: al-Rihlah fi talab al-hadith, Nur al-Din `Itr, Silsilat Turathina al-Islami, n.p., Damascus?, 1975.

---, al-Jami' fi akhlaq ar-rawi wa 'adab as-sami', E. Alexandria Municipal Library Ms., Egypt.

---, Tarikh Baghdad aw madinat al-salam, 14 vols., Cairo: Maktabat al-Khanji, 1931.

The edition is not good: it omits a volume's worth of Muhammads whose biographies are extant in manuscript, and it is full of misspellings; however, it is still a peerless treatment of men, mostly traditionists, who lived in Baghdad or passed through it before the mid-5th/11th century. Two flawed index volumes are available: Jean-Paul Pascual, Index schématique du "Ta'rikh Bagdad", Série Onomasticon arabique 2 Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1971; and Abu Hajir Muhammad al-Sa`id al-Basyuni, Faharis "Tarikh Baghdad", Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-`Ilmiyah, 1987. In neither index can one directly look up, for example, "Ahmad ibn Hanbal." Both require the researcher to remember that Hanbal was his grandfather, Muhammad ibn Hanbal his father. Pascual gives the pages in which biographies appear of men named Ahmad ibn Muhammad, while Basyuni gives the exact page where Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Hanbal's biography begins. Basyuni also gives a useful index of hadith reports. Unfortunately, Basyuni seems to have worked from the indices (tables of contents, really) in the backs of the Khanji volumes, rather than from the text itself; therefore, his index of names is only as reliable as the Khanji indices. Some new editions of Tarikh Baghdad have recently appeared in the Middle East, but I doubt whether any of them is based on new work in the manuscripts. -CM

Khoury, Raif Georges,, "Un écrit inédité attribué à Wahb b. Munabbih," Al-Machariq, 64 (1970), 600-4.

---, Wahb b. Munabbih. Teil 1: Der Heidelberger Papyrus PSR Heid Arab 23; Leben und Werk des Dichters. Teil 1: Faksimiletafeln, Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz, 1972.

Edition of stories about King David and the Prophet Muhammad's campaigns attributed to Wahb b. Munabbih.

---, 'Abd Allah Ibn Lahia (97-174/715-790): Juge et grand maître de l'école égyptienne. Avec édition critique de l'unique rouleau de papyrus arabe conservé à Heidelberg. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1986, 359pp.

Edition of an early collection of hadiths.

Kulaini, [Abi Ja'far] Muhammad b. Ya'qub b. Ishaq (d. 328 or 329), al-Usul min al-kafi, Ed. by A. A. al-Ghaffari, 8 vols., Tehran: Maktabat al-Saduq, 1377-81/1957-61. Trans. into Persian by Ayatullah Muhammad Baqir al-Kamrahyi, with commentary of Muhammad Baqir Majlisi, 4th ed., 4 vols., Tehran: Islamiyya, 1392/1972

Containing 16199 traditions, this is a twelver Shiite collection which includes hadiths both from the Prophet and from the Imams. Different figures have been given by Shiite scholars for the number of traditions which have sound isnads. One author says that of 16199 hadiths, 5072 are "sahih" (sound) in their chains of transmission, 144 are "hasan" (good), 1118 are mowathaq (credible), 302 are "qawi" (strong), and 9485 are dha'if (weak). (Later I will provide a glossary with the definitions of these technical terms). For Shiites, this collection has more prestige than other ones. -BS

al-Kurânî, 'Alî, ed., Mu'jam ahâdîth al-imâm al-mahdî, Qum: mu'assasat al-ma'ârif al-islâmiyya, 1990, 4 vols.

According to Shahzad Bashir, this compilation "is quite useful for tracing eschatological/messianic traditions from the early Islamic period. It contains both Sunni and Shi'i traditions with full references to the originals and extensive indices."