al- ʻAsjad al-masbūk fīman tawallá al-Yaman min al-mulūk
By: taʾlīf al-Faqīh al-Fāḍil al-ʻĀlim al-ʻAllāmah al-Nassābah al-Muḥaqqiq Shams al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Abī Bakr ibn al-Ḥasan al-Khazrajī al-Anṣārī.
Contributors: Ibn al-Daybaʻ, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī, 1461-1537; Ibn Jaḥḥāf, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Yaḥyá, fl. 1587.; Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden. Bibliotheek.
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1587
Place of publication: [S.l
Language: ara
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 984
Subjects: Yemen (Republic) -- History; Zabīd (Yemen) -- History
Notes: Mss. (transcript, handwritten, modern) of original written in 995H. [i.e. 1587], starts "al-Bāb al-Rābiʻ fī dhikr al-Yaman..."and ends "wa-dakhalahā al-Muʾayyad fī al-sabiʻ wa-al-ʻishrīn minhu wa-waqafa ilá ann nazala al-Malikān ibnā Ṭāhir ʻalá mā sa-yaʾtī bayānuh fī al-Bāb baʻda hadhā in shāʾa Allah taʻālá"

Colophon: "Tamma al-Kitāb bi-ḥamdillāh...sanat khams wa-Tisʻīn wa-Tisʻimāyah wa-dhalika bi-khaṭṭ...ʻAbd Allāh ibn Yaḥyá ibn ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mahdī ibn Aḥmad ibn Jaḥḥāf ghafara Allāh lahu ...āmīn."

Consists of two parts assigned as: part 4, Covers the history of Yemen and Aden since the beginning of Islam until the events of the Year 571 H. [i.e. 1175 or 76] in 10 chapters; part 5 Covers the history of Zabid since Banī Ziyād until al-Muʾayyad in 858 H. [i.e. 1454] in 12 Chapters.

Title with slight difference mentioned in al-Biʻthah al-Miṣrīyah attrituted to al-Malik al-Ashraf.

Numbers are supplied to every two pages continuously.

A completion excerpted from a work by Wajīh al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Daybaʻ al-Shaybānī starts from p. [954].

Marginal notes.

Microfilm. Leiden; Universiteitsbibliotheek,Fotodienst. 1977. 1 reel; 35 mm.