A few collection of more classical texts

A few collection of more classical texts.

Ibn al-Jawzi - He was, with Shaykh `Abd al-Qadir al-Gilani, the imam of Hanbalis and foremost orator of kings and princes in his time whose gatherings reportedly reached one hundred thousand, a hadith master, philologist, commentator of Qur'an, expert jurist, physician, and historian of superb character and exquisite manners.

Ibn Hisham - Abu Muhammad 'Abd al-Malik bin Hisham, or Ibn Hisham (died 833) edited the biography of Muhammad written by Ibn Ishaq. Ibn Ishaq's work is lost and is now only known in the recensions of Ibn Hisham and al-Tabari. Ibn Hisham grew up in Basra, Iraq, but moved afterwards to Egypt, where he gained a name as a grammarian and student of language and history. His Seerah is by far one of the best of Seerah.

Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi -  

Statements from the learned about him:
Aboo ‘Amr bin as-Salaah said: I didn’t see anyone like ash-shaykh Muwaffaq.
Ibn Taymiyyah said: No one possessing more understanding of the religion – fiqh – entered ash-Shaam - after al-Awzaa'ee - other than ash-shaykh al-Muwaffaq.
Al-Mundhiree said: He was al-Faqeeh al-Imaam, he narrated (ahaadeeth) in Damascus, he issued fatawaa and taught/gave lessons, he wrote books in fiqh and other subjects, summarized and long.
Adh-Dhahabee said: He was one of the eminent imaams and an author of many books.

Ibn Kathir said: Shaykh al-Islam, an imaam an ‘aalim, proficient, there was not found in his era nor before it by a long span of time, anyone possessing more fiqh – understanding of the religion – than him.

Imaam Abu Bakr Al Baghdadhee - He was one of the foremost scholars witnessed in his science, precision, memorization, and accuracy in the hadith of the Messenger of Allah e . He was an expert in its minute defects, its chains of transmission, its narrators and transmitters, the sound and the rare, the unique and the denounced, the defective and the discarded. The people of Baghdad never had someone comparable to Abu al-Hasan ‘Ali ibn ‘Umar al-Daraqutni after the latter, except al-Khatib.
 

Imam Al Qurturbi - He was a famous classical scholar. Imam al-Qurtubi May Allah be pleased with him was born in Cordoba, Spain and was an eminent Maliki scholar who specialised in tafsir, fiqh and hadith. He was also a prolific writer and authored many works, one of the most famous of them is his major volume Tafsir al Jami' li-ahkam al-Qur'an, better known as Tafsir al-Qurtubi.
 

Imam An-Nawawee - Imam Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi was  Born in the village of Nawa in Southern Syria, Nawawi spent most of his life in Damascus where he lived in a simple manner, devoted to Allah, engaging single-mindedly in worship, study, writing and teaching various Islamic sciences. The life of this world seems scarcely to have impinged upon him. He was a versatile and extremely dedicated scholar whose breadth of learning was matched by its depth. Imam Nawawi died at the young age of 44 years. 

Imam Shamsu ed-Deen Dhahab - He was Hafiz, scholar of Hadith, and historian. He wrote many interesting books such as Tazkirat al-Huffaz, Islamic Countries, History of Islam, The Biography of Well-known Nobles, The Biographic of Notes of the Hadith Transmitters, Classes of Readers, Prophetic Medicine, Greatest Leadership, Moderate Balance in Evaluating the Transmitters,
Mustadrak on "Mustadrak AI-Hakim" Furthermore, he summarized many other books.

1. Collection - Bidah[Innovation]
2. Ibn al-Jawzi - The Devil's Deception[508 AH-597 AH]
3. Ibn Hisham - Sirat Ibn Hisham
4. Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi - Towards the Hereafter[1147-1223]
5. Imaam Abu Bakr Al Baghdadhee - Iqtidaa ul Ilm al Amal[Knowledge Mandates Action][392H-463H]
6. Imam Al Qurturbi - In the Remembrance of the Affairs of the Dead and Doomsday[1214-1273]
7. Imam An-Nawawee - Guarding The Tongue[1234–1278]
8. Imam Shamsu ed-Deen Dhahabi - Major Sins