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THE NAHJ AL-BALAGHA :  

A compilation of sermons, letters and sayings attributed to `Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib (d.40/661).

See Modarressi 2003: 13-15.

al-Sharif al-Raḍī, Muhammad ibn al-Ḥusayn  al-Mūsawī (d. 406/1015) comp. c. 400/1009.

  • Nahj al- balāgha ("The Path of Eloquence")

  • Nahj al- balāgha [The Path of Eloquence], Beirut: Mu`assasat al-A`lamī li-l-Matbu`āt, 1324/2003 (751pp.).*

Syed Mohammad Askari Jafery, / Syed `Ali Reza., trans. 

An often highly interpretive sometimes poor translation.

  • Nahj al- balāgha, Sermons, Letters and Sayings of Hazrat Ali.  [India] Andhra Pradesh: The Hyderabad Bulletin Press, 1965. Rep. Poona [India]: Fine Art Printing Press, 1967 (569pp.).

  • Nahj al-Balāghah, Selection from Sermons, Letters and Sayings of Amir al-Mu'minin, `Ali ibn Abi Talib, Selected and Compiled by as-Sayid Abu'l-Hasan `Ali ibn al-Husayn al-Raḍī al-Mūsawī translated by Syed Ali Reza. Revised by the Board of Writing, Translation and Publications.   3 Vols. /  Pts. (= 249pp+ [2] pp. 250-501+ [3] pp. 502(5)-806pp.), Tehran: WOFIS  (= World Organization for Islamic Services).,1399/1979.

  • Nahj al- balāgha of Hazrat Ali. Rep. Tehran: Golshan Printing House, 1394/1974 (17+2+ 569pp) , Islamic Seminary Publications. It is in 12th Ed 1999 (700 pp.).

COMMENTARIES ON THE NAHJ AL-BALAGHA

Qutb al-Din Abi Husayn Sa`id ibn Hibat-Allah al-Rawandi (d. Qumm, 573/ 1177 ).

  • Minhaj al-Bara`at fi Sharh Nahj al- balāgha. ed. Sayyid `Abd al-Latif al-Kavahakmari, 4 vols. Qumm: Maktabat al-Khayyām, 1406/1985.*

Shaykh Muhammad Abduh ( ADD) Sunni scholar, one time Shaykh of al-Azhar.

  • Sharh Nahj al-balāgha. 4 vols. in 1 Beirut:  Dār al-Balāgha, 1409/1989. (790pp.).*

  • Sharh Nahj al- balāgha 

  • Sharh Nahj al- balāgha

 

 SELECT TEXTS AND COMPILATIONS CENTERED ON CERTAIN OF THE TWELVER IMAMS.

 

'Ali al-Rida ibn Musa (d. 818-19)

  • Sahifah / al-Imam al-Rida ; tahqiq Muhammad Mahdi Najaf.Beirut : Dar al-Adwa', 1986.

 

 

THE FOUR SHI`I CANONICAL COLLECTIONS

The four major authoritative collections of Shi`i Hadith are: 

 Abū Ja`far Muhammad ibn Ya`qūb al Kulaynī [Kulīnī] (d. c. 329/941)

http://www.al-islam.org/al-serat/kulayni-howard.htm

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 (1) [Kitāb] al Kāfī fī `ilm al dīn ("[The Book of] What is Sufficient for the Knowledge of Religion") 15,000+ hadīths,

    al-Uṣul min al Kāfī  + al Furū` min al Kāfī .

  • Uṣul al-Kāfī.  Lithograph edition of the Usul portion of the Kitāb al-Kāfi. transcribed by 'Ali  ibn Hasan Tabrizi, 1311/1893-4 . Corrected by Mīrzā Husayn Sharī'atmadār Tabrīzī. with a commentary (sharḥ), in the margin, by Muhammad Sālih al-Māzandarānī (d.1080/1675). Printed in [Tabriz], Kārkhānah-i Mashhadī Asad Aqa on the orders of Husayn Quli Khan Nazm al-Salţanah Amīr Tūman, in or after 1311/1893-4  (pp.[8],627pp.) See GAL 1,199 (81,320); Tehrani, Dhari`a 17 (96); Gacek, ALB 1996. No. 402.
  • al Uṣul min al Kāfī  (vols. 1-2). ed. `Ali Akbar al-Ghaffārī. Beirut: Dār al Aḍwā, 1405/1985.
  •  al-Uṣul min al Kāfī . 1 vol. ed. Beirut: Mu`assat al-`Alami. XXXX/200? (863pp.).
  •  al Furū` min al Kāfī (vols. 3-7). ed. `Ali Akbar al-Ghaffārī. Beirut: Dār al Aḍwā, 1405/1961.

  •  al Furū` min al Kāfīal Kāfī . 1 vol. ed. Beirut: Mu`assat al-`Alami. XXXX/200? (14823pp.).

  • al-Uṣūl min al-Kāfī [fī `ilm al dīn], Tehran: ADD,1967-8  (8 vols.) + Beirut:  Dār al-Aḍwā' 2 + 6 vols. ed. `Ali Akbar al-Ghaffārī, 1405/1985.
  • Kāfī al-Kulīnī (Kulaynĩ). al-Usũl min al-kāfī + Furũ՝al-kāfī, 2+6 vols. ed. Alî Akbar Ghaftārī, Beirut: Dār al-Adwā', 1405/1985..
  • R-Kafī = Rawḍat al-kafī, ed. 'Alī Akbar al-Ghaffarī, Najaf 1395/1966.
  • Repr. Beirut n.d.
  • Furu' min al-Kāfī. Edited by Άli Akbar al-Ghaffārī, 5 vols. Tehran: Maktabat al-Satluq, 1957.

Commentarues on the al Kāfī of Kulayni.

Ṣadr al-Din Shirazi [= Mullā Ṣadrā], Muhammad ibn Ibrahim (d.1050/1641)

  • Sharḥ Uṣūl al-Kāfī, 4 vols. ed. Muhammad Khājavī, Tehran: Intisharāt `Ilmī va Farhangī , 1370/1991.*

Majiisī, Muhammad-Bāqir b. Muhammad-Taqī Majiisï (d. 1111/1699-1700). 
+ Sayyid Murtaḍāal-`Askarī (XXX/XXX).2 vol. introduction to the 26 vol. edition of Majlisi's Commentary:
  • Muqaddimah Mir`āt al-`uqūl fī sharḥ akhbār al-rasūl. 2 vols. Beirut:  Dār al-kutub al-`ilmiyya, 1404/1363Sh/1983.*

  • Mir`āt al-`uqūl fī sharḥ akhbār al-rasūl. 26 vols. [Tehran: Bazar Sultani] 3rd printing, Beirut:  Dār al-kutub al-`ilmiyya, 1411/1369-70Sh/1990-1991.*

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Muhammad ibn `Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Bābūya al Qummī (= al-Ṣadūq) (d. 381/991-2) 

The three major Shi`i  jurisprudential or legal textbooks  are detailed below (2-4). They form the basis of Shī`ī fiqh (jurisprudence) with which they are largely concerned.

    (2) [Kitāb] Man lā yaḥzuruhu al faqīh ("The Book for the one who has no recourse to the lawyer"), 9,000+ traditions.

http://al-islam.org/al-serat/default.asp?url=saduq-howard.htm

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  • Man lā yaḥzuru-hu al faqīh  (4 vols?)  ed. H.M. al-Kharsan, Najaf: ADD, 1957.

  • Man lā yaḥzuru-hu al faqīh, 4 vols. ed. and introduction al-Sayyid Hasan al-Musawi al-Khurasani.  Tehran, 1390/ 1970

  • Man lā yaḥzuru-hu al faqīh  4 vols.  ed. Shaykh  `Ali  al-Ākhūndī,  5th printing, Tehran (Bazar al-Sultani] :  Dār al-kutub al-Islamiyya, 1390/1970. *

  • Man lā yaḥzuru-hu al faqīh  ed. Beirut, 1411/1991.*

  • Man lā yaḥzuru-hu al faqīh  1 vol. ed. Beirut: Mu`assat al-`Alamī, 14XX/XXXX. (816pp.).

  • Mashyakhat al-faqīḥ, The last chapter of the above, annotated by Muhammad Ja`far Shams al-Din. Beirut:  Dār al-Ta`ārif li'l-Matbu`at, n.d. (= 1411/1991?).*

Abu Ja`far Muhammad ibn Ḥasan al Tūsī (d.460/1067) = Shaykh al-Ţa'ifa ("The teacher of the community")*

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(3) Tahdhīb al-ahkām fi sharh al-munqi' a ("The Correction of the Judgments..."), 3,000+ traditions.

http://al-islam.org/al-serat/default.asp?url=tusi-howard.htm

  • Tahdhīb al-ahkām... ed. H M. al-Kharsān, Najaf, 1958-62

  • Tahdhīb al aḥkām fī sharḥ al-maqna`at  li'l-Shaykh al-Mufid...  2vols. Tehran: Mu`assah-yi Intishārāt-i Farāhānī, 1363 Sh. 1984. *

  • Tahdhīb al aḥkām.  1 vol. ed.  Beirut:  Mu`assat al-`Alami, XXXX/200? (1960pp.).

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(4) al Istibṣār.. al akhbār ("The Examinations of the Differences in the Reports"), 5,000+ hadiths*  

  • al-Istibṣār, ed. H. M. al-Kharsān, Najaf, 1375-6/ 

  • al-Istibṣār fi ma 'khtalaf min al-akhbar.

  • al-Istibṣār,  4 vols. ed. Shaykh Muhammad al-Ākhūndī,  Tehran (Bazar al-Sultani] :  Dār al-kutub al-Islamiyya, 1390/1970. *

  • al-Istibṣār,  1 vol. ed.  Beirut: Mu`assat al-`Alami, XXXX/200? (858pp.).

al-Tūsī, Abu Ja'far Muhammad b. Ḥasan al-Tūsī : Further writings:

  • Kashf al-murād-sharh tajrìd al-i'tiqad, + comrnentary by Hilli. Edi. and Trans. by Abu'l-Hasan Sha'rānī. Tehran: 1351/1872.

  • aI-Fihrist, ēd. M.S. Al Bahjr al-'Ulūm, Najaf, 1937 Al-Chayba, TabrTz, 1323 q

  •  'Uddat al-uįūl, Tehran, 1314 q

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Imam Ja`far al-Sadiq, the 6th Imam

  • Fiqh al-Imam Ja`far al-Sadiq. 3 vols.

 

 

 

 

Ibn Bābūya [Bābawayh], Abū Ja`far Muhammad. b. `Alī,  known as al‑Ṣādūq (d. 381/991-2)

 


 

  • Kamal = Kamāl [Ikmāl] al‑dīn wa tammam [itmam] al‑ni`ma fī ithbāt al‑gḥayra wa kashf al‑ḥayra. Beirut: Mu`asasat al‑A`lamī, 1412/1991.*

  • Kitab al‑tawhid.  Beirut: Dār al‑Ma`rifa. n.d. *

  • Kitab al‑`Ilāl al‑sharā`i.  Beirut: Mu`asasat al‑A`lamī, 1408/1988.*

  • Kitab al‑`Ilāl al‑sharā`i.  Tehran (?) : Muminin, 14XX/2003

  • Kitab al‑Khiṣāl. Beirut: Mu`asasat al‑A`lamī, 1410/1990.

  • Thawāb al‑a`māl.  Beirut: Mu`assat al‑A`lamī. 1403/198*3.

  • 'Uyūn  akhbār al‑Riḍā, [lith.,1899/1317] rep. Qumm, 1377  +  Najaf, 1390/1970.*

  •  Risāla fī’l‑ghayba, IV  [Qumm CDRom]).*

al-'Āmilī, Muḥsin al-Amīn (add).

  • A`yān = A'yan al-shī'a, 56 parts, Damascus 1935-63*
  • ADD 11 vols., Beirut 1986*
  • CD - VERSION

Muhammad b. Murtadā al-Kāshāni , known as Muḥsin al-Fayḍ (d. 1091/1680)

  • al-Wafī

 Muhammad b. Hasan al-Hurr al-'Āmilī (d. 1104/1693)

  • Wasā'iì al-Shī'a ila taḥṣīil masā'il al-sharī`a.  20 [?] vols. ed Shaykh `Abd al-Raḥīmin al-Rabbani al-Shirazi and Muhammad al-Razi. Tehran : ADD, 1376-1389 AH / 1956-69 CE.
  • Wasā'il al-Shī'a ila taḥṣīil masā'il al-sharī`a.  2nd ed. in 20 vols. ed Shaykh `Abd al-Raḥīmin al-Rabbani al-Shirazi. Beirut: Dar al-Ihya al-Turath al-`Arabi, [4th printing] 1391/1971. *
  • Vol. 6 contains the Kitab al-Jihad (pp 1-392).
  • Amal al-amil ed. `Ali al-Husayni, Baghdad: ADD, 1965.
     

 Majiisī, Muhammad-Bāqir b. Muhammad-Taqī Majiisï (d. 1111/1699-1700).

  • Biḥār al-anwar  1st ed.  Tehran 25/15 vols. Tehran: ADD   1887-98.
  • Bihār al-anwār, 110 vols. Tehran: al-Maktabah al-Islamīyah, 1387-92/1956-72. *
  • Bihar 2 Biḥār al-anwār  2nd ed 110 vols. Beirut: Dār al-Iḥyā al-Turāth al-`Arabī, 1376-94/1956-74 and 1403/1983. *
  • Ḥayāt al-qulūb.  5 vols. Ed. Sayyid `Alī Imamiyān. Intishārāt Surūr, 1375-6 Sh/ 1997-8 *
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'Abd-Allāh ibn  Nūr-Allāh al-Baḥrānī

al-Baḥrānī ,  ‘Abd-Allāh ibn Nūr Allāh (d. 1XXX / 17XX)

  •  al-‘Awālim al-'ulūm wa'l֊-ma`ārif.

Yusuf al-Baḥrānī = Yusuf ibn Ahmad ibn Ibrahim Dirāzī, al-Baḥrānī (c.1107-1186 AH= 1695-6]-1772 CE).

EIr. III:529-530.

  • Ḥadā'iq al-nāḍira fi aḥkām al-`itra al-ṭāhira. 3rd. ed. Muhammad Taqi al-Iyrawai,  25 vols.  3rd ed. Beirut : Dar al-Aḍwā' 1413/ 1993. An extensive though incomplete legal work)*.
  • Lu`lu`at al-Baḥrayn

 

Hajji Mirza Husayn ibn Muhammad Taqī al-Nūri al-Tabrisi [al-Tabarsi] (d. 1320/1908).

  • Mustadrak al-wasā'il wa mustanbaṭ al-masā'il.   Mu`assasat Āl-al-Bayt li'l-Iḥya al-Turath, 18 vols. [3rd printing] 1411/1991. *

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Shaykh Muhammad Ḥasan al-Najafi (d.1266/1850).

  • Jawāhir al-Kalām fī Sharḥ Shari'`a al-Islām. ed. Shaykh `Abbās al-Quchānī, 43 vols. 7th printing, Beirut: Dar Iḥyā' al-Turāth al-`Arabī, 1981.*

al-Qummī, Hajji Shaykh `Abbās (d.1359/1941)

  • Ṣafinat al-Biḥār wa Madinat al-Hikma wa al-Athar., 2 vols. Beirut:  Dār al-Murtaḍā' [1355/1936] (736pp+ 741pp.) .*
  • Ṣafinat al-Biḥār wa Madinat al-Hikma wa al-Athar.,  Najaf,: Kitabkhanah-yi Sanā'ī   n.d. [1352-5?]  (736pp.)..*
  • Ṣafinat al-Biḥār wa Madinat al-Hikma wa al-Athar., 8 vols.  [Beirut]:  Dār al-Aswat li'l-Matbu`at  wa'l-Nashr,   1414/1993.*

 

Modarressi, Hossein.

  • 2003 Tradition and Survival, A Bibliographical Survey of Early Shī`ite Literature. Vol.1 Oxford: Oneworld, 2003.