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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.
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Nahj al-
balāgha ("The Path of Eloquence")
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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.
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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.).
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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.
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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 ).
Shaykh Muhammad Abduh ( ADD) Sunni
scholar, one time Shaykh of al-Azhar.
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Sharh Nahj
al- balāgha
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Sharh Nahj
al- balāgha
SELECT
TEXTS AND COMPILATIONS CENTERED ON CERTAIN OF THE TWELVER IMAMS.
'Ali al-Rida ibn Musa (d. 818-19)
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


(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.
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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.).
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al
Furū` min al Kāfī (vols. 3-7). ed. `Ali Akbar al-Ghaffārī. Beirut: Dār al Aḍwā,
1405/1961.
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al Furū` min al Kāfīal
Kāfī . 1 vol. ed. Beirut: Mu`assat al-`Alami. XXXX/200? (14823pp.).
Commentarues on
the al Kāfī of Kulayni.
Ṣadr al-Din Shirazi [= Mullā Ṣadrā], Muhammad ibn Ibrahim
(d.1050/1641)
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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:
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Muqaddimah Mir`āt al-`uqūl fī
sharḥ akhbār al-rasūl. 2 vols. Beirut: Dār al-kutub al-`ilmiyya,
1404/1363Sh/1983.*
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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.*
_______________________________
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.
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Man lā yaḥzuru-hu al
faqīh, 4 vols. ed. and introduction al-Sayyid Hasan al-Musawi al-Khurasani.
Tehran, 1390/ 1970
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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.
*
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Man lā yaḥzuru-hu al
faqīh ed. Beirut,
1411/1991.*
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Man lā yaḥzuru-hu al
faqīh 1 vol. ed. Beirut: Mu`assat al-`Alamī, 14XX/XXXX.
(816pp.).
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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")*.

(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
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Tahdhīb
al-ahkām... ed. H M. al-Kharsān, Najaf, 1958-62
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Tahdhīb al aḥkām fī
sharḥ al-maqna`at li'l-Shaykh al-Mufid... 2vols. Tehran:
Mu`assah-yi Intishārāt-i Farāhānī, 1363 Sh. 1984.
*
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Tahdhīb al aḥkām.
1 vol. ed. Beirut: Mu`assat al-`Alami, XXXX/200? (1960pp.).

(4) al Istibṣār..
al akhbār ("The Examinations of the Differences in the Reports"), 5,000+
hadiths*
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al-Istibṣār, ed. H. M. al-Kharsān, Najaf, 1375-6/
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al-Istibṣār fi ma 'khtalaf
min al-akhbar.
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al-Istibṣār, 4 vols.
ed. Shaykh Muhammad al-Ākhūndī, Tehran (Bazar al-Sultani] :
Dār
al-kutub al-Islamiyya, 1390/1970.
*
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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:
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Kashf al-murād-sharh
tajrìd al-i'tiqad, + comrnentary by Hilli. Edi. and Trans. by
Abu'l-Hasan Sha'rānī. Tehran: 1351/1872.
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aI-Fihrist,
ēd. M.S. Al Bahjr al-'Ulūm, Najaf, 1937 Al-Chayba, TabrTz, 1323 q
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'Uddat al-uįūl,
Tehran, 1314 q
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Imam Ja`far al-Sadiq, the 6th Imam
Ibn Bābūya
[Bābawayh], Abū Ja`far Muhammad. b. `Alī, known as al‑Ṣādūq
(d. 381/991-2)
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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.*
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Kitab al‑tawhid. Beirut: Dār al‑Ma`rifa. n.d.
*
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Kitab al‑`Ilāl al‑sharā`i. Beirut: Mu`asasat al‑A`lamī, 1408/1988.*
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Kitab al‑`Ilāl al‑sharā`i. Tehran
(?) : Muminin, 14XX/2003
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Kitab al‑Khiṣāl. Beirut: Mu`asasat al‑A`lamī, 1410/1990.
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Thawāb al‑a`māl. Beirut: Mu`assat al‑A`lamī. 1403/198*3.
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'Uyūn akhbār al‑Riḍā, [lith.,1899/1317] rep. Qumm, 1377
+ Najaf,
1390/1970.*
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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)
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).
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Biḥār al-anwar 1st ed. Tehran 25/15 vols. Tehran: ADD 1887-98.
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Bihār al-anwār, 110 vols. Tehran: al-Maktabah al-Islamīyah, 1387-92/1956-72. *
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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
*
'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.
*
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)
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Ṣafinat al-Biḥār wa
Madinat al-Hikma wa al-Athar., 2 vols. Beirut: Dār al-Murtaḍā'
[1355/1936] (736pp+ 741pp.) .*
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Ṣafinat al-Biḥār wa
Madinat al-Hikma wa al-Athar., Najaf,: Kitabkhanah-yi Sanā'ī
n.d. [1352-5?] (736pp.)..*
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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.
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