1. Overview of the Work Tazkiratul Huffaz (تذکرۃ الحفاظ) is a classical biographical dictionary in the Islamic literary tradition. The title translates to “Memorial of the Memorizers [of the Qur’an].” It documents the lives, scholarly contributions, and chains of transmission (isnad) of renowned Qur’an memorizers (Huffaz) and hadith scholars from the early generations of Islam up to the author’s time.