Editing Biographical evaluation (section)

===Shi'i===

Early [[Shi'ite]] {{Transliteration|ar|rijāl}} collections include:<ref>Non-critical editions: {{cite book|editor1-last=al-Baghdādī|editor1-first=Ḥaydar Muḥammad ʿAlī|year=2012|title=Rijāl al-Barqī|location=Qom|publisher=Musʾassasat al-Imām al-Ṣādiq}} {{cite book|editor1-last=al-Iṣfahānī|editor1-first=Jawād al-Qayyūmī|year=2006|title=Ikhtiyār maʿrifat al-rijāl al-maʿrūf bi-rijāl al-Kashshī|location=Qom|publisher=Muʾassasat al-Nashr al-Islāmī}} {{cite book|editor1-last=al-Zanjānī|editor1-first=Mūsā al-Shabīrī|year=1997|title=Rijāl al-Najāshī|location=Qom|publisher=Muʾassasat al-Nashr al-Islāmī}} {{cite book|editor1-last=al-Ṭabāṭabāʾī|editor1-first=ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz|year=1999|title=Fihrist kutub al-shīʿa wa-uṣūlihim|location=Qom|publisher=Maktabat al-Muḥaqqiq al-Ṭabāṭabāʾī}} {{cite book|editor1-last=al-Iṣfahānī|editor1-first=Jawād al-Qayyūmī|year=1994|title=Rijāl al-Ṭūsī|location=Qom|publisher=Muʾassasat al-Nashr al-Islāmī}}</ref>

*{{Transliteration|ar|Rijāl al-Barqī}} ("al-Barqī's Men"), by [[Ahmad al-Barqi|Aḥmad al-Barqī]] (died c. 893)
*[[Ikhtiyar ma'rifat al-rijal|{{Transliteration|ar|Ikhtiyār maʿrifat al-rijāl}}]] ("The Selection of the Knowledge of the Men"): an [[abridgement]] made by [[Shaykh Tusi]] (995–1067 CE) from the {{Transliteration|ar|Rijāl al-Kashshī}} ("al-Kashshī's Men") by [[Muhammad ibn Umar al-Kashshi]] ({{circa}} 854–941/951)
*{{Transliteration|ar|Rijāl al-Najāshī}} ("al-Najāshī's Men"), by [[Ahmad ibn Ali al-Najashi|Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Najāshī]] (c. 982–1058)
*{{Transliteration|ar|Fihrist kutub al-shīʿa}} ("The Catalogue of the Books of the Shi'ites"), by Shaykh Tusi (995–1067 CE)
*{{Transliteration|ar|Rijāl al-Ṭūsī}} ("al-Ṭūsī's Men"), by Shaykh Tusi (995–1067 CE)