Ithaf al-Sadah al-Muttaqin - Imam Muhammad al Husaini Murthada al Zabidi (10 vol.)

Sharh of Imam Ghazali's Ihya 'Ulum Al-Din Including Takhrij (verification) of the hadith. The Lavish Gift of the Godwary Masters & Commentary on Imam al-Ghazali's 'Revival of Religious Sciences.' It contains the most comprehensive documentation of the hadith narrations cited by al-Ghazali. The author provides Sharh (Commentary) and detailed takhrij (verification) of the hadith that al-Ghazali quotes in the Ihya Ulum in depth, much more than al-hafiz al-`Iraqi (d. 806 /1404) does in his al-mughni 'an haml al-'asfar fil al-'asfar fi takhriji mafi al-Ihya' min al-akhbar. Al-zabidi mentions that al-hafiz al-iraqi intended to write three versions takharij of the hadith of the ihya' only the shorter version was the only one that was completed. The longer version of the takhrij was only completed up to book 7 -Mysteries of Pilgrimage. Al-zabidi claimed to have one copy of this work in which he used in his ithaf (c.f. 1:p123, 312) where he mentions al-takhrij al-saghir and al-takhrij al-kabir (the smaller verification and the grand verification- respectively).