Also contains discourse on the knowledge of hadith, including the classification of hadith, the history of the compilation of hadith and the lives of great muhadditheen.
The author has collected the comments of learned scholars of hadith. He has mainly consulted the following books.
Fath al-Bari by Hafiz Ibn Hajar Asqalani rahimahullah
Idah al-Bukhari by Maulana Syed Fakhr ad-Deen Ahmad Sahib
Fadhl al-Bari by Maulana Ahmad Bijnori sahib
Kashf al-Bari by Allamah Muhammad Uthman Ghani sahib
Nasr al-Bari by Allamah Muhammad Uthman Sahib
Fadhl al-Bari By Hadhrat Maulana Maseehullah Khan sahib
Anwar al-Bari By Allamah Anwar Shah Kashmiri.
The author, Dr. Rafiq Ahmad is a leading E.N.T & Head and Neck surgeon. He is a student of the renowned Sufi Shaykh, Mawlana Masih Allah Khan Jalalabadi. and the founder of Darul Uloom Ilaahiyah. He has authored a number of book on the Islamic Sciences.