Ibn Hajar declared his works influential in the field of the
Science of hadith and
Hadith terminology saying, "Scarce is the discipline from the disciplines of the science of ḥadīth on which he has not written a book." He then quoted Abu Bakr ibn Nuqtah, a
Hanbali scholar, as saying, “Every objective person knows that the scholars of ḥadīths coming after al-Khaṭīb are indebted to his works.” Over 80 titles have been attributed to al-Baghdādī. Selected list of works. •
History of Baghdad or
Madīnat as-Salām ('City of Peace') and Appendix of Scholars - 23 volumes. Considered his
magnum opus and a major work in Islamic history. •
Al-Amali ("The Dictations") of which three volumes exist in the Zahiriyya collection. •
Al-Asma’ al-Mubhama ("Anonymous Mentions"), identifying those mentioned anonymously in hadiths or hadith chains. •
Al-Bukhala ("The Misers") in three volumes. •
Al-Faqih wa al-Mutafaqqih ("The Jurist and the Student of the Law"). •
Al-Fasl li al-Wasl al-Mudraj fi al-Naql ("The Decisive Statement On Attributions Inserted Into Transmission"). •
Al-Fawa’id al-Muntakhaba ("The Select Benefits"). •
Iqtida’ al-‘Ilm al-‘Amal ("Knowledge Necessitates Deeds"). •
Al-Jahr bi Bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim ("Pronouncing the basmala Outloud"), listing – as
al-Daraqutni did in his Sunan – the proof-texts of the Shafi‘i school on this practice.
Ibn al-Jawzi in al-Sahm al-Musib stated that all of the hadiths adduced by al-Khatib in al-Jahr – as is the case with al-Daraqutni’s proofs for the basmala in his Sunan – are either weak or very weak.
Al-Dhahabi also wrote a critique of al-Khatib’s book, as did the Hanbali Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn ‘Abd al-Hadi. •
Al-Jami‘ li Akhlaq al-Rawi wa Adab al-Sami ("The Compendium on the Ethics of the Hadith Narrator and the Manners of the Auditor") in two volumes, the continuation of Sharaf Ashab al-Hadith. •
Al-Khayl ("Equestrianism"). Al-Khatib relates from his father that their origin was of a Beduin Arab tribe specializing in raising horses in al-Jasasa, bordering the Euphrates. •
Al-Kifaya fi ‘Ilm al-Riwaya ("The Sufficiency in the Science of Hadith Narration"), it is still considered to be the best work on the subject in our day and age. Al-Khatib comprehensively enumerated the norms of hadith narration in about 170 chapters, explaining its principles and general rules as well as the schools of the scholars when their opinions differed. •
Manaqib Ahmad ibn Hanbal ("The Immense Merits of Imam Ahmad"). •
Manaqib al-Shafi‘i ("The Immense Merits of Imam al-Shafi‘i"). •
Al-Mudih li al-Jam‘ wa al-Tafriq ("The Clarifier of Collation and Dispersion"), listing the different names under which the same person may be identified in transmission chains. •
Musnad Abi Bakr al-Siddiq ‘ala Shart al-Sahihayn ("Narrations Related by Abu Bakr According to the Criterion of al-Bukhari and Muslim"). •
Al-Muttafaq wa al-Muftaraq ("Similar-Looking Narrators’ Names"). •
Nasiha Ahl al-Hadith ("The Faithful Counsel of the Masters of Hadith"). •
Al-Qunut wa al-Athar al-Marwiyya Fih ("The qunût and Its Proof-Texts") according to the
Shafi‘i school. •
Al-Rihla fi Talab al-Hadith ("Travel in Pursuit of A Hadith") •
Riwaya al-Sahaba ‘an al-Tabi‘i ("Narration of the Companions From a Tabi‘i"), listing examples of this occasional case. •
Al-Sabiq wa al-Lahiq ("The Precursor and the Subsequent in Chronology") in ten volumes. •
Salat al-Tasbih wa al-Ikhtilaf Fiha ("The Prayer of Glorification and the Difference of Opinion Concerning Its Status"), an authoritative presentation of its proof-texts that goes together with Ibn Nasir al-Din al-Dimashqi’s al-Tarjih li Hadith Salat al-Tasbih,
al-Mundhiri’s documentation in the first volume of
At-Targhib wat-Tarhib, and
Ibn al-Salah’s discussion in his Fatawa. Sharaf Ashab al-Hadith ("The Eminence of the Masters of Hadith") in which he narrated
Abu Dawud’s saying: "Were it not for this band of people we would not be studying Islam." •
Al-Tabyin li Asma’ al-Mudallisin ("The Exposition of the Names of Those Who Concealed Their Sources"). •
Taqyid al-‘Ilm ("The Fettering of Knowledge"), an important book gathering all the proofs that large-scale writing of hadith began in the time of the Prophet, together with particular caveats against it. •
Al-Tatfil wa Hikayat al-Tufayliyyin ("Sponging and Spongers"). •
Tali Talkhis al-Mutashabih, an addendum to Talkhis al-Mutashabih. •
Talkhis al-Mutashabih fi al-Rasm ("Summary of the Similarities in Spelling"), on hadith narrators commonly confused with one another due to the similar spelling of their names. == See also ==