The Lifting of Secrets Concerning Forged Re­ports (الأسرار المرفوعة في الأخبار الموضوعة) was written over four hundred years ago by a respected and prolific Meccan savant of Afghan origin. Mulla ‛Ali al-Qari (d. 1014/1605) was thor­oughly famil­iar with the large body of critical lit­erature on hadith forgery, which he re­fined and re­or­dered alpha­beti­cally into 625 entries. Al-Qari’s last work, it is the only catalogue of for­geries with both a transmission-based and content-based critique, illustrating the author’s vast erudition as well as his lenient choices in hadith metho­dology and his classic Hanafi and Sufi views.The translator has added his own study of the forgery and “famous hadith” genres, a bio-bibliography of the author, extensive footnotes and exhaustive indices. A total of 3,000 reports are docu­mented in this volume covering doctrinal and juridi­cal forgeries, Shiite for­geries, Sufi for­geries, racial forgeries, misogynistic for­geries, food forgeries, “Israelite” forgeries, medical forgeries, sex forgeries, spurious books, spurious grave-spots and more. This is the first and long overdue au­thentic refer­ence work on hadith forgeries in English.Dr. Gibril Fouad Haddad holds scholarly licenses (ijāza) from 150 shaykhs and has authored dozens of books and hundreds of articles in Islamic hermeneutics, doctrine, hadith, biography and here­siology. He was hailed in the inaugural edition of The 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World as one of the clearest voices of traditional Islam in the West. His works include The Four Imams and Their Schools, Sunna Notes I-III, The Muhammadan Light in the Qur’an, Sunna and Companion-Reports, and The Maturidi School.