al-Targhib wa-l-Tarhib (Abu al-Qasim al-Asbahani)

Al-Targhib wa-l-Tarhib is the book of Abu al-Qasim Isma'il b. Muhammad al-Asbahani, called Qiwam al-Sunna. ² It is one of the sources al-Mundhiri added to his own Targhib; he says he took everything in it that was not in his other sources, that this was little, and that he left out the hadiths in it shown to be fabricated. ¹

The annotator of the al-Maktaba al-Qayyima edition identifies him as Isma'il b. Muhammad b. al-Fadl al-Taymi al-Qurashi al-Talhi al-Asbahani, teacher of Abu Sa'd al-Sam'ani, al-Silafi and Ibn 'Asakir, quotes 'Abd al-Jalil b. Muhammad that the imams of Baghdad used to say no one more learned or more excellent had come to Baghdad since Ahmad, and gives his birth as 457 and his death on the day of the Feast of Sacrifice, 535. ¹