The book "Manaqib Al -Shafi'i" by Imam Al -Bayhaqi postponed what he wrote in his door, surpassing him from his predecessor to absorb and criticism of the narrations, and no one came after him or similar to it, until the one who costs authorship in this approach after him falls in fatigue without an aroma, but he escaped There is a number of novels and news, then he collected it in this single part, which made him his book as the tail, and he referred to him at the conclusion of his book "Al -Manaqib" and praised him and said: "And he has [Al -Shafi'i] tales that he did not agree to direct in the book of Al -Manaqib and brought them out in part."