Abū Ḥudhayfa Isḥāq ibn Bishr Qurashī

Abū Ḥudhayfa Isḥāq ibn Bishr Qurashī (Arabic: أبو حذيفة بن بشر القرشي, d. 206/821) was the author of Mubtadaʾ al-dunyā wa-qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ (Arabic: كتاب مبتدأ الدنيا وقصص الأنبياء, 'the beginning of the world and the stories of the prophets'), an important early work in the qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ (Islamic histories of prophets) genre. Long thought to be lost, a copy was identified around the early 1990s in the manuscript Oxford, Bodleian Library, Huntington 388.^[1] Though fragmentary, the manuscript contains over two hundred folios, covering biblical history from the Creation to Abraham, indicating its importance in the development of the genre.^{[2]: 132–33}

References

1. M. J. Kister, 'Adam: A Study of Some Legends in tafsīr and ḥadīth Literature', Israel Oriental Studies, 13 (1993), 113–74 (pp. 113–14).
2. Roberto Tottoli, 'The Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ of Ibn Muṭarrif al-Ṭarafī (d. 454/1062): Stories of the Prophets from al-Andalus', Al-Qantara, 19.1 (1998), 131–60.