Iqtifa' al-Wafa bi-Akhbar Dar al-Mustafa (al-Samhudi)

Iqtifa' al-Wafa bi-akhbar dar al-Mustafa was the first and largest of al-Samhudi's three books on the history of Medina; the editor of Wafa' al-Wafa describes it as a detailed book in which the author set down all the histories of Medina he could find and things he had witnessed that none of its historians had recorded, aiming at completeness, gathering scattered material and summarizing every history of the city he had seen. ¹

The editor says the author names it at the start of his second book "Iqtifa' al-Wafa bi-akhbar dar al-Mustafa", as does the author of Shadharat al-dhahab, while Hajji Khalifa calls it "al-Wafa bi-ma yajib li-hadrat al-Mustafa" and the author himself refers to it within his other two books as "al-Wafa". ¹ The book was never finished or published: the author left it in the Prophet's Mosque and travelled to Mecca, and it burned with the parts of the mosque that caught fire. ¹ In his biography of the author the editor repeats that it "burned before it was finished". ²