Book

Alamali,cheykhe Toussi

al-Shaykh al-Ṭūsī

Researcher

al-Shaykh al-Ṭūsī

Discription of This Book

The book, al-Amali, is not organized in terms of subject matter. Thus, it is difficult to find hadiths regarding a specific topic in the book.

The bulk of the book is devoted to hadiths concerning proofs for the wilaya (guardianship) and virtues of Imam Ali (a).

Al-Shaykh al-Tusi carefully cited the chains of transmissions of hadiths. There are few hadiths in the book with defective chains of transmissions, such as mursal (without a complete chain of narrators) or maqtu'a (unknown narrator) hadiths. Thus, al-Shaykh al-Tusi's al-Amali contains hadiths selected by al-Shaykh al-Tusi from among thousands of hadiths at his disposal.

Al-Amali is considerable with respect to the variety of its topics; it contains hadiths regarding such various topics as the principles of the religion, knowledge of God, virtues of the Infallibles (a), the practice of the Prophet Muhammad (s), transmitted

General Data

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Title of Book

Alamali,cheykhe Toussi

Author

al-Shaykh al-Ṭūsī

Date of death of the author

Researcher/Editor

Subject

hadith

Language

Arabic

Number of volumes

Publisher

دار الثقافة

Author

Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan (Arabic: محمد بن الحسن بن علي بن الحسن) (b. 385/995 in Tus, d. 460/1067 in Najaf), better known as al-Shaykh al-Ṭūsī (Arabic: الشيخ الطوسي), was one of the greatest Shi'a jurists and compilers of hadith. He has written many works in the fields of theology and tafsir. For his great contributions and tremendous influence, he received the honorable title of al-Shaykh al-Ṭāʾifa (الشيخ الطائفة) (the chief or head of the Shi'a). He moved from Khorasan to Iraq at the age of 23 and benefited from teachers like al-Shaykh al-Mufid and al-Sharif al-Murtada. The Abbasid caliph appointed him to the chair of Theology of Baghdad. When the library of Shapur was set on fire, he had no choice but to move to Najaf and establish a seminary there. Al-Shaykh al-Tusi became the marja' of the Shi'a after the demise of al-Sharif al-Murtada. His jurisprudential theories and writings such as al-Nihaya, al-Khilaf and al-Mabsut are consulted by jurisprudents. His important exegesis is al-Tibyan. Al-Shaykh al-Tusi was also an expert in other fields such as rijal, theology and principles of jurisprudence and his books are references for religious studies. He started to transform Shi'i ijtihad and expanded its discussions and made it independent from Sunni ijtihad. His most famous student is Abu l-Salah al-Halabi.