Tarikh al-Khulafa - History of the Khalifas

تاريخ الخلفاء للإمام الحافظ جلال الدين السيوطي
By Imam Jalalud-Din al-Suyuti →

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Arabic (Dar Ibn Hazm) ­

Other editions: Text as PDF | manuscript

Urdu translation ­
English transl. by AbdusSamad Clark ­

"History of the Khalifahs who took the right way" - Partial translation (Taha 1995)
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’.