List of Sunni books

Hadith collections

Primary sources

• Sahih al-Bukhari of Muhammad al-Bukhari
• Sahih Muslim of Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj
• Sunan al-Sughra of Al-Nasa'i
• Sunan Abi Da'ud of Abu Dawood
• Sunan al-Tirmidhi of Al-Tirmidhi
• Sunan Ibn Majah of Ibn Maja
• Al-Muwatta of Malik ibn Anas
• Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal of Ahmad ibn Hanbal
• Sunan al-Darimi
• Sahifah Hammam ibn Munabbih of Hammam ibn Munabbih
• Musannaf of Abd al-Razzaq of ‘Abd ar-Razzaq
• Musannaf of ibn Jurayj of Ibn Jurayj
• Al-Mu'jam al-Kabeer by al-Tabarani
• Al-Mustadrak alaa al-Sahihain of Hakim al-Nishaburi

Secondary sources

• Masabih al-Sunnah of Al-Baghawi
• Mishkat al-Masabih
• Riyadh as-Saaliheen of Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi
• Talkhis al-Mustadrak by al-Dhahabi
• Majma al-Zawa'id Ali ibn Abu Bakr al-Haythami
• Bulugh al-Maram of Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
• Kanz al-Ummal of Ali ibn Abd-al-Malik al-Hindi

Collections of Ahadith al-ahkam

• Ma'ani al-Athar by Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Tahawi
• Al-Sunan al-Kubra by Ahmad Bayhaqi
• al-Muntaqa by Majd ibn Taymiyah explained by Muhammad ash-Shawkani in Nayl al-Awtar Sharh Muntaqa al-Akhbar
• 'Umdah al-ahkam by Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi
• Bulugh al-Maram min Adillat al-Ahkam, by al-Hafidh ibn Hajar al-Asqalani.

Commentaries of collections

• Fath al-Bari of Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
• Umdat al-Qari of Badr al-Din al-Ayni
• Irshad al-Sari of al-Qastallani
• Al Minhaj Be Sharh Sahih Muslim of Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi
• Sharh Sunan al-Tirmidhi of Ibn al-Arabi
• Sharh al-Muwatta al-Malik (al-Zurqani) of Muhammad al-Zurqani
• Nayl al-Awtar by Muhammad ash-Shawkani
• Mirqat Sharh Mishkat al-masabih by Ali al-Qari

Hadith terminology

• Al-Muqaddimah by Ibn al-Salah

Tafsir

• Tafsir al-Tabari by Ibn Jarir al-Tabari
• Tafsir al-Qurtubi
• Tafsir ibn Kathir
• Tanwir al-Miqbas Tafsir Ibn Abbas
• Tafsir al-Baghawi
• Tafsir al-Kabir (Fakhr al-Din)
• Tafsir al-Jalalayn by al-Mahalli and Suyuti
• Dur al-Manthur by Suyuti
• Ruh al-Ma'ani by Mahmud al-Alusi
• Ruh ul-Bayan by Shaikh Ismail Haqqi al Bursi Sufi
• Fuyuooz-ul-Quran ('Benevolences of Quran') in Urdu, by Dr Syed Hamid Hasan Bilgrami
• Al-Kashshaf by al-Zamakhshari
• Fath al-Qadir by Muhammad ash-Shawkani
• Tafsir Tafheem Al Quran by Syed Abul A'ala Maududi
• Tafseer-e-Siddiqui by Maulvi Abdul Qadeer Siddiqui Qadri Hasrat
• Al-Mufradat fi Gharib al-Quran by al-Raghib al-Isfahani
• Khazaain-ul-Irfan by Maulana Naeem-ud-Deen Muradabadi
• Tafsir e Naeemi by Mufti Ahmed Yar Khan Naeemi
• Tafsir ul Hasanat by Allama Abul Hasnat Syed Ahmed Shah
• Tafsir e Nabawi by Maulana Nabi Baksh Halwai
• Tafsir e Fayuzur Rahman Ruhul Bayan Translated by Mufti Faiz Ahmed Owaisi
• Tafsir Zia-ul-Quran by Pir Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari
• Tibyan-ul-Quran by Allama Ghulam Rasool Saeedi
• Tafsir e Mazharul Quran by Mufti Azam Mazharullah Dehalwi

• Tafsir e Ibne Kaseer Translated by Zia ul Quran
• Tafsir e Mazhari Translated by Zia ul Quran
• Tafsir e Ibne Abbas Translated by Zia ul Quran
• Tafsir e Durre Mansoor Translated by Zia ul Quran
• Tafsir e Yaqoobe Charkhi Translated by Zia ul Quran
• Tafsir e Khazin Translated by Farid Book Stall

History books

• Raud al-Unuf by Al Suhayli (d. 581AH) a commentary of Ibn Hisham's As-Sirah An-Nabawiyyah

• Al-Maghazi by Al-Waqidi d. 207H
• Tarikh al-Umam wa al-Muluk by Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (d. 310AH)
• Genealogies of the Nobles (book) (Ansab al-Ashraf) by Ahmad Ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri (d. 892)
• The Comprehensive Compilation of the Names of the Prophet's Companions (368-463AH/983-1078CE) by Ibn Abd-al-Barr
• Al-Kamil fi al-Tarikh by Ibn al-Athir (d. 630AH, 1231)
• al-Bidayah wa al-Nihayah by Ibn Kathir
• Tarikh al-Khulafa by Suyuti
• Khilafat-wa-Malukiyyat by Syed Maududi
• The Khalifas who took the right way (book) by Suyuti
• History of Baghdad (book) by Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi
• Al-Raheeq al-Makhtum (The Sealed Nectar)
• Tarikh Yaqubi
• Al-Faruq
• Ma'alim fi-l-Tariq
• Al-Imama wa al-Siyasa
• Al-Fitna Al-Kubra

Ilm ar-Rijal

• Tahdhib al-Tahdhib By Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
• The Great History
• The Book of Knowledge about the Companions
• The Comprehensive Compilation of the Names of the Prophet's Companions
• Finding the Truth in Judging the Companinons
• The Lions of the Forest and the knowledge about the Companions
• The book of The Major Classes
• History of Damascus by Ibn Asaker
• Al-Kamal fi ma`rifat al-rijal

Shi'a-Sunni argumentations

• Minhaj as-Sunnah an-Nabawiyyah by Ibn Taymiya
• Taufa Ithna Ashari
• Al-Sawa'iq al-Muhriqah — by Ibn Hajar al-Haitami
• Al-'Awasim min al-Qawasim by Imaam Qaadhee Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabee Maalikee
• Mawaddat al-Qurba — 1800th (disputed)
• Yanabi al-Muwadda — 1900th (disputed)

Books on Islamic jurisprudence

• Al-Kaafi fi fiqh al-Imaam Ahmad bin Hanbal By Imaam Ibn Qudamah.
• Nayl al-Awtar.
• Umdat al-Salik wa Uddat al-Nasik.
• Al-Muhalla.
• The Lawful and the Prohibited in Islam.

More

• Minhaj ul Muslimeen by Syed Masood Ahmad
• Fara'id al-Simtayn by Al-Juwayni
  • Al-Ghunya by Abdul-Qadir Gilani
• Minhaj us Sawi of Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri
• Tadhkirat al-huffaz
• Chach Nama
• Zad al-Ma'ad
• al-Wabil al-Sayyib
• Sharh al-Mawahib al-Ladunniyyah
• Hujjat al-Balagha
• Sirush Shahadhathayn
• Bahar-e-Shariat
• The Incoherence of the Philosophers
• Al-Maqasid
• Muqaddimah
• Kitab mu'jam al-buldan
• Sirat al-Halbiya
• Kitab al-Miraj
• Fath al-Buldan
• Wafa al-Wafa by al-Samhudi
• Ma'arij-ul-Nabuwwah
• Habib al-Siyar