The Holy Quran with Five Volume Commentary (Vol 1) — Page xviii
Books of Reference with Their Abbreviated Titles Some commentators have given single letters or a group of letters as abbreviations for the authorities they have quoted. These are not of much help to the reader, who has to turn to the list of abbreviations again and again in order to ascertain to which authority the letter refers. But it also seems cumbrous to give the names of the authorities in full. So we have followed a middle course and have given a shortened form of the name, which generally consists in a part of the name of the book or its author. Thus, for instance, instead of Al-Bahrul-Muhit by Abū Ḥayyān, we have simply given the word Muḥīt, and for Sīratun-Nabī by Ibn Hishām, the abbreviated form Hishām is given. These abbreviated names easily suggest to the reader the book or the author to which reference is made. No shortened form, however, has been used for the authorities that are not frequently quoted. In case of the books of the Bible, we have made use of the abbreviations that are generally used in Christian literature. Following is a list of well-known works of reference and other important books to which we have referred in this Commentary. We have taken special care to give the full name of each book and its author along with its abbreviated title. Shortened name. Bukhārī Muslim Tirmidhi Dāwūd or Abū Dāwūd Mājah Musnad Nasa'i Mu'atta Baihaqi 'Ummāl Quţnī Qasṭalānī Books of Hadith Full name with the name of the author. The Sahih of Bukhārī, by Abū ‘Abdullāh Muḥammad bin Ismā'il Bukhārī. The Sahiḥ of Muslim, by Ḥāfiz Abul-Husain Muslim bin Hajjāj al-Qushairi. The Jami' of Tirmidhī by Abū ‘Īsā Muḥammad bin ‘Īsā Tirmidhī. Sunan of Abu Dāwūd by Ḥāfiz Sulaimān bin Ash'ath Abū Dāwūd. Sunan of Ibn Majah by Muḥammad bin Yazīd Abū ‘Abdullāh Ibn Majah Qazwini. Musnad of Aḥmad bin Hanbal by Imām Abū ‘Abdullah Aḥmad bin Hanbal. Sunan of Nasa'i by Ḥāfiz Abū ‘Abdur-Raḥmān Aḥmad bin Shuaib Nasa'ī. Mu'aṭṭa by Imam Mālik. Sunan of Baihaqi, by Abu Bakr Aḥmad bin Husain al-Baihaqi. Kanz-ul-Ummal fi Sunan al-Aqwāl wal Af‘āl by Shaikh 'Alā- ud-Din 'Ali al-Muttaqi. Sunan of Dar Quțnī by Ḥāfiz ‘Ali bin ‘Umar ad-Dār QuṬnī. Irshād as-Sārī by Aḥmad bin Muḥammad al-Khaṭīb Qasṭalānī.