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Muhammad ibn Abi Qurrah, teacher of al-Najashi, (died 450/1058), compiled Mu`jam rijal Abi Mufaddal.[^35] Abu al-`Abbas, al-Sirafi Ahmad, teacher of al-Najashi, authored al-Masabih.[^36] Ibn al-Ghada'iri, Ahmad ibn al-Husayn, compiled al-Rijal al-du`afa'. Abu Ya`la al-Khalili (died 442/1054-55). Al-Najashi, Abu al-`Abbas Ahmad ibn `Ali (died 450/1058), the author of Ma`rifat al-rijal. Al-Tusi, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan (died 460/1067-68). Al-Kitani (died 466/1073-74). `Abd ibn Jarud. Al-`Aqili.

Ibn Abi Hatim. Al-'Azraq. Ibn `Abd al-Birr (died 463/1070-71). Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Ahmad ibn `Ali (died 463/1070-71). Ibn Fathun, Abu Bakr. Shihab al-Din, Ahmad ibn Yusuf. Al-'Akfani, Hibat Allah ibn Ahmad (died 466/1073-74). Al-Sam`ani, `Abd al-Karim (died 562/1166-67). Abu Musa, Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr (died 581/1185-86). Muntajab al-Din, `Ali ibn `Ubayd Allah Babawayh (died after 585/1189). He wrote Kitab al-fihrist, and a history of the Shi`ah scholars.

Al-Majlisi included it at the end of vol. XXV of his Bihar al-anwar. Ibn Shahr Ashub, Muhammad ibn `Ali (died 588/1192). He made additions at the end of al-Tusi's Fihrist. Abu al-Faraj ibn al-Jawzi, `Abd al-Rahman ibn `Ali (died 597/1200-1) Al-Muqaddasi, `Ali ibn Mufaddal (died 611/1214-15). Ibn Bitriq, Yahya ibn al-Hasan (died 600/1203-4). He wrote Kitab rijal al-Shi`ah.[^37] Ibn al-Athir, `Ali ibn Muhammad al-Jazari (died 630/1232-33) wrote Usd al-ghabah.

Ibn Abi Tayy, Yahya ibn Hamid al-Halabi (died 630/1232-33), wrote al-'Isti`ab. Quraysh ibn al-Sabi' (died 664/1265-66) summarized al-'Isti`ab and al-Tabaqat of Ibn Sa`d. `Abd al-Azim ibn `Abd al-Qawi al-Mundhiri (died 656/1285). Ibn Tawus, Ahmad ibn Musa ibn Ja`far al-Hilli (died 673/1274-75) wrote Hall al-'ishkal in the year A.H.

644, and brought together in it all biographical accounts of the five major works on `ilm al-rijal: al-Kashshi, al-Najashi, al-Tusi's Rijal and Fihrist, and Ibn al-Ghada'iri's al-Du`afa'.[^38] Izz al-Din, Ahmad ibn Muhammad (died 656/1258). Al-Muhaqqiq al-Hilli, Ja`far ibn al-Hasan (died 676/1277-78), condensed al-Tusi's Fihrist. Ibn Tawus, `Abd al-Karim ibn Ahmad ibn Musa ibn Ja`far (died 693/1293-4). Ibn Dawud, al-Hasan ibn `Ali ibn Dawud (born 647/1249-50).

Al-`Allamah al-Hilli, al-Hasam ibn Yusuf (died 726/1325-26) wrote Khulasat al-'aqwat, Idah al-'Ishtibah and Kashf al-'ishtibah. Al-Birzali, al-Qasim ibn Muhammad al-Dimashqi (died 738/1337-38).