Vol 3

al-Awwal [al-thālith] min Kitāb al-Tahdhīb fī ikhtiṣār Kitāb al-Tahdhīb tahdhīb al-kamāl fī asmāʼ al-rijāl jamaʻa al-Shaykh al-Imām al-Ḥāfiẓ Abī al-Ḥujjaj Yūsuf ibn al-Zakī ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Yūsuf al-Mizzī al-Kalbī ... / mimmā ʻuniya bi-jamʻihi bi-ikhtiṣārihi wa-talkhīṣihi al-imām al-muḥaddith al-ḥāfiẓ Shams al-Dīn Abū ʻAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻUthmān al-Dhahabī.

Biographical dictionary of transmitters of traditions, being an abirdgment of the dictionary by al-Mizzī, Tahdhīb al-kamāl fī asmāʼ al-rijāl. At the end of the text, after the colophon, statement by Dhahabī indicating that al-Mizzī composed his work from Muḥarram 9, 705 to Dhū al-Ḥijjah 10 ("Yawm al-Aḍḥá), 712 [Aug. 1305-April 1313], and that Dhahabī completed his abridgment in Ṣafar 719 [1319], after eight months of work (vol. 3, fol. 315a-b).