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Al-Kafi (Arabic: ٱلْكَافِي, al-Kāfī, literally 'The Sufficient') is a hadith collection of the Twelver Shī‘ah tradition, compiled in the first half of the 10th century CE (early 4th century AH) by Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Kulaynī. [1] It is one of the Four Books.
Sharh Usul al-Kafi — by Mohammad Salih al-Mazandarani; A Bundle of Flowers — collected by Ayatollah Sayyid Kamal Faghih Imani; a popular English language secondary collection of Shi'a hadith. It narrates traditions from such Shia collections as Kitab al-Kafi and Man la Yahdhuruhu'l Faqih.
Mir'at al-Uqul (Arabic: مرآة العقول lit. The Mirror Of Minds/Intellect) (Full name: Merʾāt al-ʿoqul fi šarḥ aḵbār āl al-rasul: Šarḥ ketāb al-Kāfi le’l-Kolayni) is a hadith commentary of Al-Kafi, one of the four main Shi'a hadith books, that contains hadith gradings and commentary by Shia scholar Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi (d. 1110/1698).
Man lā Yaḥḍuruhu al-Faqīh (Arabic: مَنْ لَا يَحْضُرُه ٱلْفَقِيه, lit. 'He Who has no Jurisprudent' with Him) is a Hadith collection by the famous Twelver Shia Hadith scholar Abu Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn ʿAli ibn Babawayh al-Qummi, commonly known as Ibn Babawayh or Sheikh al-Saduq (lit. The Truthful Scholar).
Shi'a Muslims use different books of hadith from those used by Sunni Muslims, [b] who prize the six major hadith collections.In particular, Twelver Shi'a consider many Sunni transmitters of hadith to be unreliable because many of them took the side of Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali instead of only Ali (and the rest of Muhammad's family) and the majority of them were narrated through certain ...
Tabaqat al-Shāfi'iyya al-Kubra (Arabic: طبقات الشافعية الكبرى, lit. 'The Major Classes/Generations of the Shafi'is') is a voluminous encyclopedic biographical dictionary written by the Shafi'i-Ash'ari scholar Taj al-Din al-Subki (d. 771/1370), in which he presents biographies of scholars of the Shafi'i legal school in Sunni Islam, from the time of Muhammad ibn Idris al ...
In particular, al-Kulayni dedicates a chapter in his hadith collection Kitab al-Kafi to the number of imams. [19] Sulaym's version of the hadith is also cited by the Shia authors al-Kulayni, al-Nu'mani (tenth century), and al-Tusi (d. 1067), while the Shia-leaning historian al-Mas'udi (d. 956) questions its authenticity. [15]
Al-Kaafi is one of the marvels of Islamic literature. It is from the series of literal accomplishments offered by the author, al-Imaam Ibn Qudamah al-Maqdisi. It is the third book in a series of four books that Ibn Qudamah wrote in order to gradually take a student of knowledge through the different levels of understanding.