What contribution is associated with *al-Nihāyah fī Gharīb al-Ḥadīth wa-l-Athar*?

Hadith Abbreviation, Narration by Meaning, and Unfamiliar Vocabulary

• Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ’s ban on paraphrase
• Ibn al-Athīr’s accessible compilation of earlier rare-vocabulary material
• Ibn Ḥajar’s catalogue of narrator names
• Al-Shāfiʿī’s early treatise in legal theory