Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Kisāʾī ( Arabic: محمد الكسائي) (ca. 1100 CE) wrote a work on Stories of the Prophets (Qiṣaṣ al-Anbiyā). It has been characterised as "one of the best-loved versions of the prophetic tales". [1]: xix
Al-Kisāʾī produced a collection of Stories of the Prophets; according to Wheeler M. Thackston, its date "is highly uncertain, although the prevalent opinion is that it must have been written not long before 1200". [1]: xix It includes exegetic information not found elsewhere [2] and elaborates on earlier exegesis with a fuller narrative and folkloric elements from oral traditions now lost [2] that often parallel those from Christianity. He includes two prophets, Shem and Eleazar, not named in later literature as prophets. [3] The work often cites ʿAbd Allāh ibn Salām (d. 663), Kaʿb al-Aḥbār (d. c. 652), and Wahb ibn Munabbih (d. c. 730), who were understood as foundational authorities on pre-Islamic Abrahamic traditions in early Islam. [1]: xiii It was later translated into Persian by Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan al-Daydūzamī. [1]: xix