Book

Qurb al-Asnād

'Abd Allah b. Ja'far al-Himyari 'Abd Allah b. Ja'far al-Himyari

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'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.

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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

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Arabic

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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۔