Kis Imam ki Wafat Kab Hui

Four pages, and all four of them are one table: number, name, birth, death, and works. There is no prose in it at all, which is why it is on this shelf as a reference sheet rather than as an essay.

It opens with the imams of fiqh: Abū Ḥanīfah (80-150 AH, Musnad Imām Aʿẓam and Fiqh Akbar), Mālik (95-179, the Muwaṭṭaʾ at 3,069 hadiths), Abū Yūsuf (113-182, Kitāb al-Kharāj), Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan (132-189, thirty volumes), al-Shāfiʿī (150-204). It then runs through the great collectors: ʿAbd al-Razzāq (126-211, Muṣannaf, 21,199), Ibn Abī Shaybah (159-235, Muṣannaf, 37,930), Aḥmad (164-241, Musnad, 27,100), Bukhārī (194-256), Muslim (204-261), Ibn Mājah (209-273, 4,341), Abū Dāwūd (202-275, 5,274), Tirmidhī (220-279, 3,956), Nasāʾī (215-303, Sunan Ṣughrā, 5,761), Ṭabarānī (260-360, al-Kabīr, twenty-five volumes), Dāraquṭnī (306-385, 4,790) and Bayhaqī (384-458, Sunan Kubrā, 21,812).

The counts are the point of it. A list of dates is easy to find; a list that also says how large each collection is, on one sheet, is the thing a student actually wants when placing a narration. The same apparatus, brought under the classical matn texts themselves, is his al-Hidayah maa Ahadithiha and al-Quduri maa Ahadithihi.