Editing Biographical evaluation (section)

====Chronologically ordered====
=====Particular to a specific period of time=====
Books particular to the Companions:
*''[[Ali ibn al-Madini#Works|The Book of Knowledge about the Companions]]'' by [[Ali ibn al-Madini]].
*''[[Yusuf ibn abd al-Barr#Works|The Comprehensive Compilation of the Names of the Prophet's Companions]]'' by [[Yusuf ibn abd al-Barr]].
*''[[Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani#Works|Finding the Truth in Judging the Companinons]]'' by Ibn Ḥajr.
*''[[Ali ibn al-Athir#Works|The Lions of the Forest and the knowledge about the Companions]]'' by [[Ali ibn al-Athir]].

=====General chronology=====
*''Kitab al-`Ilal wa Ma‘rifat al-Rijal'': "The Book of Narrations Containing Hidden Flaws and of Knowledge of the Men (of Hadeeth)" by [[Ahmad ibn Hanbal]].
*''[[Ibn Sa'd al-Baghdadi#Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr|The Book of the Major Classes]]'' by [[Ibn Sa'd al-Baghdadi]].
*''[[Al-Dhahabi#Works|Tadhkirat al-huffaz]]'', ''The Memorial of the Hadith Masters'', a chronological history of hadith scholars' biographies by al-Dhahabi.
*''[[Mizan al-Itidal]]'' by [[al-Dhahabi]]
*''[[Lisan al-Mizan]]'' by [[Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani]], a reworking of Mizan al-'Itidal by al-Dhahabi.
*''Tahdhib al-Tahdhib'' by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
*''Taqrib al-Tahzib'' by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
*''[[Tarikh al-Islam al-kabir]]'' ({{lang|ar|تاريخ الإسلام}}) [https://archive.org/details/FP3938 'Great History of Islam' (50 vols., in Arabic)]; Ibn Hajar received it from Abu Hurayra ibn al-Dhahabi;<ref>Ibn Hajar, ''al-Mu`jam'' (p.400 #1773)</ref> comprising over 30,000 biographical records.<ref>Maxim Romanov, "Observations of a Medieval Quantitative Historian?" in ''Der Islam'', Volume 94, Issue 2, Page 464</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Dhahabī|first=Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad|author-link=Al-Dhahabi|title=Tārīkh al-Islām|place=Beirut|publisher=Dar al-Garb al-Islami|year=2003|language=ar|volume=17|url= https://archive.org/stream/FP105731/13_105743#page/n170/}}</ref>
*''[[Siyar a`lam al-nubala]]'' ({{lang|ar|سير أعلام النبلاء}}) ('The Lives of Noble Figures') by [[al-Dhahabi]], 28 volumes, a unique [[biographical dictionary|encyclopedia of biographical]] history.<ref>{{cite book|last=Dhahabī|first=Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad|author-link=Al-Dhahabi|title= Sīr al-a'lām al-nublā'|place=Beirut|year=1984|language=ar|volume=25|url=https://archive.org/stream/FP11950/}}</ref>