Abū Ḥudhayfa Isḥāq ibn Bishr al-Qurashī (, d. 206/821) was the author of Mubtadaʾ al-dunyā wa-qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ (, 'the beginning of the world and the stories of the prophets'), an important early work in the qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ (Islamic histories of prophets) genre. Long thought to be lost, a copy was identified around the early 1990s in the manuscript Oxford, Bodleian Library, Huntington 388.M. J. Kister, 'Adam: A Study of Some Legends in tafsīr and ḥadīth Literature', Israel Oriental Studies, 13 (1993), 113–74 (pp. 113–14). Though fragmentary, the manuscript contains over two hundred folios, covering biblical history from the Creation to Abraham, indicating its importance in the development of the genre.Roberto Tottoli, 'The Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ of Ibn Muṭarrif al-Ṭarafī (d. 454/1062): Stories of the Prophets from al-Andalus', Al-Qantara, 19.1 (1998), 131–60.
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