Sketching a picture of Arabic historiography in Abbasid Syria is often a tedious process since many of the works produced by the region’s scholars exist primarily in quotations scattered throughout Ibn `Asakir’s "Ta'rikh Madinat Dimashq." Recently Talal al-Da`jani (2003) and Jens Scheiner (2017) identified hundreds of written sources that Ibn `Asakir likely had at his disposal while composing his voluminous biographical dictionary. Among the sources in Ibn `Asakir’s “library” was a cluster of biographical works authored by Syrian scholars from the mid-third/-ninth century to the mid-fourth/-tenth century, most of which are no longer extant. In an attempt to recover what was thought lost, modern scholars such as Gerhard Conrad (1989, 1991) have compiled and organized Ibn `Asakir’s citations of a few of these biographical works to produce reconstructions that have expanded our knowledge of Arabic historiography in Abbasid Syria. Inspired by the fruitful results of Conrad’s studies, my paper attempts to reconstruct Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Baghdadi’s (d. late 3rd/9th c.) "Ta'rikh al-Himsiyyin" and `Abd al-Samad b. Sa'id al-Himsi’s (d. 324/936) "Ta'rikh Hims," the two earliest local histories dedicated to residents of the northern Syrian city. Al-Baghdadi’s "Ta'rikh al-Himsiyyin," which Ibn `Asakir cites nearly a hundred times, is the more expansive of the two works as he provides detailed biographical information for prominent Himsis from the Islamic conquests up to the third/ninth century. Al-Himsi’s work, on the other hand, is focused on documenting the numerous Companions of the Prophet who settled in his hometown. Given our lack of other sources dedicated to early Islamic Hims, the local histories of al-Baghdadi and al-Himsi are vital for broadening our understanding of early Islamic Hims. My paper recognizes the pitfalls of reconstructing lost texts (L. Conrad, 1993; Landau-Tasseron, 2004) and has no illusions of reproducing al-Baghdadi’s "Ta'rokh al-Himsiyyin" and al-Himsi’s "Ta'rikh Hims" as they were originally composed. Rather it seeks to produce a comprehensive compilation of Ibn `Asakir’s quotations from these works arranged, when possible, in accordance with the section headings given by the authors (e.g. al-Baghdadi appears to have organized his biographies into "tabaqas" whereas al-Himsi grouped the biographies of his subjects by their tribal affiliations). From these reconstructions, my paper will seek to outline a basic prosopography of early Islamic Hims while also contextualizing these local histories within the landscape of Arabic historiography in Abbasid Syria.