al-Kafi fi 'Ilm al-Din

By Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni

الكافي في علم الدين

al-Kulayni's al-Kafi — the great Shi'i hadith corpus: sixteen thousand reports sorted sound/fair/weak over three parts 1.

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Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Overview

"Al-Kafi fi Ilm al-Din" (The Sufficient in the Science of Religion) by Muhammad ibn Yaqub al-Kulayni (al-Kulayni), one of the most comprehensive hadith collections of the Shi'a. 1

What Ahmad Amin says

Ahmad Amin says that it contains sixteen thousand hadiths, which he divided into sound, good, weak and very weak, as the Sunni scholars did. It is in three parts: the first on the principles, and the second and third on the branches of the law. Its compilation took twenty years. 1

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Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni

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Sources

  1. Duha al-Islam — Ahmad Amin (Hindawi 2012) , p. 850, 891
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