Book | Suyuti: History of the Khalifas
Tarikh al-Khulafa - History of the Khalifas
تاريخ الخلفاء للإمام الحافظ جلال الدين السيوطي
By Imam Jalalud-Din al-Suyuti →
Arabic (Dar Ibn Hazm)
Urdu translation
English transl. by AbdusSamad Clark
By Imam Jalalud-Din al-Suyuti →

Other editions: Text as PDF | manuscript


"History of the Khalifahs who took the right way" - Partial translation (Taha 1995)
Alernative translation: H.S. Jarret, Calcutta University 1881
Alernative translation: H.S. Jarret, Calcutta University 1881
The Book Tarikh al-Khulafa’ 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 khulafa’ right up to the age in which as-Suyuti himself lived. For this volume Ta-Ha have chosen the luminous chapters on al-Khulafa ar-Rashidun, “The Khalifahs who took the right way’.