Robson, James, "Hadith," An Introduction to the Science of Tradition, being Al-Madkhal ila ma'rifat al-Iklil by Al Hakim Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad b. Abdallah al Naisaburi , London, 1953.

---, Mishkat al-masabih, English translation with explanatory notes, (Author: Khatib al-Tibrizi, Muhammad ibn `Abd Allah, fl. 1337), Lahore, M. Ashraf.

The author's introduction to the translation gives an account of the hadith literature.