Qurb al-Asnād
'Abd Allah b. Ja'far al-Himyari 'Abd Allah b. Ja'far al-Himyari
Researcher
'Abd Allah b. Ja'far al-Himyari 'Abd Allah b. Ja'far al-Himyari
Discription of This Book
Qurb al-isnād (Arabic: قُرب الإسناد) is an an Imami hadith collection which is written by 'Abd Allah b. Ja'far al-Himyari, a Shiite scholar of the 3rd/9th and 4th/10th centuries. The book introduces short chains of narrations of hadiths that are very close to the Imams (a). It contains 1387 hadiths of Imam al-Sadiq (a), Imam al-Kazim (a) and Imam al-Rida (a). The book includes sections regarding cleanness (tahara), prayer, fasting, zakat ,and hajj. There is a disagreement among scholars and bibliographers as to the attribution of the book to al-Himyrari.
General Data
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Title of Book
Qurb al-Asnād
Author
'Abd Allah b. Ja'far al-Himyari 'Abd Allah b. Ja'far al-Himyari
Date of death of the author
Researcher/Editor
Subject
Language
Arabic
Number of volumes
1
Publisher
Author
عبداللّہ بن جعفر حِمیری قرن سوم و چہارم کے محدّث، شیعہ عالم دین ہیں۔ ولادت و وفات کی دقیق تاریخوں کا علم نہیں لیکن اس میں کسی قسم کا تردد نہیں کہ انہوں نے امامت امام ہادی (ع)، امام حسن عسکری (ع) اور غیبت صغری کے زمانے میں زندگی بسر کی۔
