 Among them were al-Da'udi, the head of the Zahiris in Khurasan, and aṭ-Ṭabarānī, well known for his biographical dictionaries of ḥadīth transmitters.Aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī was famed for his extraordinary expertise in both ḥadīth and Ḥanafī jurisprudence even during his own lifetime, and many of his works, such as "Kitāb Maʿāni al-Āthār" and "ʿAqīdah aṭ-Ṭaḥāwīyyah," continue to be held in high regard by Sunni Muslims today.Many of aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī's contemporaries praised him and noted him as both a reliable scholar and narrator of ḥadīth.