768), in "Miraat al-Jinan" Ibn al-Shaikh al-Balawi, in "Alef Baa" Ibn Kathir (d.

768), in "Miraat al-Jinan" Ibn al-Shaikh al-Balawi, in "Alef Baa" Ibn Kathir (d. 774), in "al-Bidayah wal Nihayah" Ibn Khaldoon (d. 808), in "al-Muqaddimah" al-Nuwairi (d. ~833), in "Nihayat al-Irab fi Finoon al-Adab" al-Maqrizi (d. 845), in "al-Khitat" Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (d. 852), in "al-Isabah" and "Tahdhib al-Tahdhib" Ibn al-Sabbagh al-Maliki (d. 855), in "al-Fusool al-Muhimmah" Mir Khand (d. 903), in "Habib al-Siyar" Jalalulddin al-Suyuti (d.

910), in "Tarikh al-Khulafa" Ibn Hajar al-Haythami, (d. 974), in "al-Sawa'iq al-Muhriqah" al-Hafiz Ahmad Ibn Muhammad al-'Asimi, in "Zain al-Fata" al-Qirmani al-Dimashqi (d. 1019), in "Akhbar al-Duwal" Noor al-Din al-Halabi (d. 1044), in "al-Sirah al-Halabiyah" ... and many others.

The Tradition of Ghadir Khum is parallel (mutawatir) The Tradition of Ghadir is narrated in parallel (mutawatir) and is proven by the Sunnis to be from numerous chain of transmitters: Ahmad Ibn Hanbal narrated it from 40 chains; Ibn Jarir al-Tabari in more than 70 chains; Abu Sa'id al-Sijistani from 120 chains; Abu Bakir al-Jaabi from 125 chains; al-Amir Muhammad al-Yamani (2nd century) had 150 chains; al-Dhahabi has written a complete book on its chains and passed a verdict that it is Mutawatir; Abul Abbas Ibn `Uqdah has narrated it through 150 chains.