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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Shi'ah and Islamic Disciplines Chapter 9: Precedence Of The Shi’ah In Compiling Islamic History Section One: The First to Write about This Discipline The first to write about Islamic history was Hawaban ibn Uthman al–Ahmar, a tabi’i who died in 140. He wrote a voluminous book on pre–Islamic history, military expeditions, deaths and the issue of apostasy, as al–Najashi informs us in Kitab Asma al–Musannifin min al–Shi’ah .

He says that al–Ahmar was a Nawusi before but he later joined the Imamiyyah Shi’ah. He devoted himself to Imam Abu Abdillah al–Sadiq (‘a). He was from Basra and a client of the Bajilah tribe but he lived in Kufa. He wrote a number of works. Section Two: The First to Write about All the Categories of Islamic History The first to write about all its eight categories is Hisham ibn Muhammad ibn al–Sa’ib ibn Bishr ibn Zayd Abu al–Munzir al–Kalbi. The first is on pacts.

He wrote Kitab Hilf Abdul Muttalib wa Khuza’ (The Pact between Abdul Muttalib and the Tribe of Khuza’a), Kitab Hilf al–Fudul wa Qissat al–Ghazal (The Pact of Fudul), Kitab Hilf Kalb wa Tamim (The Pact Signed by the Tribes of Kalb and Tamim), Kitab al–Ma’ram and Kitab hilf Aslam wa Quraysh (On the Pact between Aslam and Quraysh). The second is on history of exploits, families, conflicts and concord.

He wrote Kitab al–Munafarat (conflicts); Kitab Buyutat Quraysh (families of the Quraysh); Kitab Fada’il Qays Ghaylan , (on the merits of this tribe); Kitab al–Mawaddat (concord), Kitab Buyutat Rabi’a; Kitab al–Kuna (agnomens); Kitab Akhbar al–Abbas ibn Abd al–Muttalib (Stories about Abbas ibn Abd al–Muttalib); Kitab Khutbat Ali alaihi al–salam (Sermons of Imam Ali); Kitab Sharaf Qays ibn Kilab wa Wuldih fi al–Jahiliyya wa al–Islam (the high rank of Qays ibn Kilab and his offspring before and after the advent of Islam); Kitab Alqab Rabi’a; Kitab Alqab al–Yaman , (these two books deal with surnames related to the Rabia tribe and to Yemen); Kitab al–Mathalib ; Kitab al–Nawafil (Book of allies) comprising allies of Quraysh, allies of Kinanah, allies of Asad, allies of Taym and allies of Rabi’ah; Book on Enumerating the people killed from among the Ad, the Thamud, the Amalekites, the Israelites and the Jurhum Arabs, and the story of al–Hijris and the names of their tribes; Allies of Qada’ah and Allies of Yamen.