Ibn Qutaybah - Works

Works

• Gharīb al-Qur'an also known as Mushkil al-Qur'an, on its lexical difficulties.
• Al-Imama wa al-Siyasa, also known as Ta’rikh al-Khulafa’. It is likely a spurious work not penned by him. Shaykh Muhib al-Din al-Khatib states in his edition of the work "`Awasim min al-Qawasim" of Abu Bakr ibn al-`Arabi al-Maliki, "Nothing from it has been credibly attributed to Ibn Qutaybah at all. Al-Imamah wa-l Siyasah is rife with ignorance, stupidity, falsehoods and deception..."
• The Interpretation of Conflicting Narrations (Arabic: Ta’wīl Mukhtalif al-Hadīth)
• Adab al-Kitāb.
• al-Amwāl.
• al-Anwā’.
• al-‘Arab wa ‘Ulūmuhā on Arab intellectual history.
• al-Ashriba on alcoholic beverages.
• Dalā’il al-Nubuwwa or A‘lām al-Nubuwwa on the Proofs of Prophethood.
• Fad.l al-‘Arab ‘alā al-‘Ajam in praise of the Arabs.
• I‘rāb al-Qur’ān, a philological commentary.
• al-Ikhtilāf fī al-Lafz. wa al-Radd ‘alā al-Jahmiyya wal-Mushabbiha, a refutation of both the Allegorizers and the Anthropomorphists. This slim volume received editions in Egypt.
• al-Ishtiqāq.
• Is.lāh. Ghalat. Abī ‘Ubayd, corrections on al-Qāsim ibn Salām’s Gharīb al-H.adīth.
• Jāmi‘ al-Fiqh in jurisprudence, dispraised as unreliable by al-T.abarī and Ibn Surayj, as was Ibn Qutayba’s al-Amwāl.
• Jāmi‘ al-Nah.w al-Kabīr and Jāmi‘ al-Nah.w al-S.aghīr.
• al-Jarāthīm in linguistics.
• al-Jawābāt al-H.ād.ira.
• al-Ma‘ānī al-Kabīr.
• al-Ma‘ārif, a slim volume that manages to cover topics from the beginning of creation and facts about the Jāhiliyya to the names of the Companions and famous jurists and h.adīth Masters.
• al-Masā’il wal-Ajwiba.
• al-Maysar wal-Qidāh. on dice and lots.
• al-Na‘m wal-Bahā’im on cattle and livestock.
• al-Nabāt in botany.
• al-Qirā’āt in the canonical readings.
• al-Radd ‘alā al-Qā’il bi Khalq al-Qur’ān, against those who assert the createdness of the Qur’an.
• al-Radd ‘alā al-Shu‘aybiyya, a refutation of a sub-sect of the ‘Ajārida ‘At.awiyya, itself a sub-sect of the Khawārij.
• al-Rah.l wal-Manzil.
• Ta‘bīr al-Ru’yā on the interpretation of dreams.
• Talqīn al-Muta‘allim min al-Nah.w in grammar.
• ‘Uyūn al-Akhbār in history.
• ‘Uyūn al-Shi‘r in poetry.
• al-Shi‘r wal-Shu‘arā’