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The book Taqreeb al-Tahdheeb

Question: 8846

There is a book by Ibn Hajar al-‘Aqsallaani entitled Taqreeb al-Tahdheeb. What does this title mean, and what is the story of this book?

Praise be to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon the Messenger of Allah and his family.

This book is a highly condensed summary of a large book about
the names and status of narrators of hadeeth. 

Al-Haafiz al-Maqdisi (may Allaah have mercy on him) wrote his
book entitled al-Kamaal fi Asma’ al-Rijaal, in which he recorded the
sayings of the imams concerning the narrators of the two Saheehs and
the four Sunans, relying on the histories of al-Bukhaari, the book of
Ibn Abi Haatim, the book of Ibn Mu’een, his companions and so on. 

Then al-Haafiz al-Mazzi shortened the book
and called it Tahdheeb al-Kamaal. Then Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqallaani
shortened it further and added some material that was omitted by the two
earlier scholars, which was a great deal of material. He called this summary
Tahdheeb al-Tahdheeb. Then he condensed it further in the book called
Taqreeb al-Tahdheeb.

Source

Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid

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