Writing Barnamaj and Wadi Ashi's al-Barnamaj

The present text is a survey of writing Barnamaj as the famous method for writing biographies in the west of the Islamic world. Writing Barnamaj is the outcome of Muslim's concentration on hearing as a general method of learning used in Islamic civilization. Aiming at documenting their hadiths, they tried to record the name of their teachers and methods of receiving hadith and also chain of documents in books often titled as Barnamaj or Fehreseh. After a brief review of Barnamaj books, the author reviews the Wadi Ashi's al-Barnamaj and while explaining the methods of compiling Barnamaj books, he concludes that in the light of these works, the history of Islamic education and syllabus and the most important of all, the history of transmitting sciences from one part to other parts of the world of Islam is recognized exactly.