Abu'l-Fath

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Abu'l-Fath ibn Abi al-Hasan al-Samiri al-Danafi, (Arabic: أبو الفتح إبن أبي الحسن السامري) was a 14th-century Samaritan chronicler. His major work is Kitab al-Ta'rikh (Arabic: كتاب التاريخ).

Kitab al-Ta'rikh

This work was commissioned in 1352 by Pinḥas, Samaritan High Priest, and begun in 1356. It is an Arabic compilation of Samaritan history from cited earlier sources,^[1] running from Adam to Mohammed.^[2] This book is the oldest and most complete Samaritan work that has survived until the present day.^[3]