Mawarid Abu Hatim al-Sijistani (d. 248 AH / 862 CE) in His Book Al- Muammarin
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The study of historians’ curricula and resources in historical writing is one of the important topics that appeared recently, after the voices were raised calling for the rewriting of history according to a correct scientific perspective, away from distortions that affected the work of a number of Arab Muslim historians for various motives and different purposes. This is what calls to extrapolate the writings of historians and evaluate them after identifying their approaches and methods of writing, and to identify the sources that they have adopted in recording incidents and historical facts, as well as to make comparisons between the curricula and resources of previous and contemporary historians. This study intended to discuss and study this type of studies. Hatim al-Sijistani in his book Al-Muammareen, was a model for research, and the study was able to find out the various sources of his quotes, some of which were written sources, and at times oral narratives taken from the mouths of sheikhs and narrators, and at other times he relied on contemporary and witnessing, as well as ignoring the sources of his information in several narrations.
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