Tārīkh al-Khulafā� is justly famous in Arabic, and rarely out of print. In the original it comprises the histories of all those who have been named as khulafā� right up to the age in which as-Suyuti himself lived. For this volume Ta-Ha follow up The Khalifahs who took the right way with this volume on the Umayyad Caliphs.

Abu�l-Faḍl cAbd ar-Raḥmān Jalāl ad-Dīn as-Suyūṭī was born on the night of Saturday the 1st of Rajab 849 AH (3rd October 1445 CE.). As-Suyūṭī mastered most of the traditional studies of his day, particularly those relating to knowledge of hadith, and was the author of more than five hundred works on Qur�an, Sunnah, hadith, fiqh, sirah, and medicine, etc. He is best remembered for his completion of the tafsīr of Qur�an known as the Jalālayn, which had been left incomplete on the death of Jalāl ad-Dīn al-Maḥallī. He died on Thursday the 18th of Jumādā al-Ūlā, 911 AH (17th October 1505 CE.), may Allah have mercy upon him.