Abu l-Fath, or Ibn Abi al-Hasan al-Samiri al-Danafi, was a fourteen century Samaritan

Samaritan

The Samaritans are an ethnoreligious group of the Levant. Religiously, they are the adherents to Samaritanism, an Abrahamic religion closely related to Judaism...

 chronicler, writing in Arabic

Arabic language

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. His major work is Kitab al-Ta'rikh.

The work was commissioned in 1352 by Pinḥas, Samaritan high priest, and begun in 1356. It is a compilation of Samaritan history from cited earlier sources, running from Adam to Mohammed.

It was edited by Eduard Vilmar as Abulfathi annales Samaritani (Gotha

Gotha (town)

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, 1856).