Reality of Certainty (book)
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Reality of Certainty is a Shi'a Twelver hadith collection authored by the major Shia hadith scholar Allamah Mohammad Baqir Majlisi
in the 16th century.
It is a major secondary source of hadiths, which elaborates on hadith drawn from primary sources compiled centuries earlier such as al-Kafi and Man Yadhuru'l Faqih
. Most of the primary Shia hadith collections are from the 10th and 11th centuries CE, and the secondary ones are either from the late Mongol era (14th century) or the Safavid era (16th-17th centuries).
Haqq al-Yaqeen has been criticized by some Shi'a in the words: Haqq al-Yaqeen has many weak narrators, none of the Hadith scholars have graded their narration as Sahih .
However, aside from the weak narrators, it also has many strong ones, and it is a well-researched book and contains more or less complete chains of narration, which many earlier books (including the Sunni collections of Bukhari
and Muslim
) tend to omit. From the Shia point of view, all hadiths books have at least a few weak narrators, since they were compiled by fallible people, therefore having weak narrators does not invalidate the whole book because hadiths are to be individually graded on their authenticity.
As proof, the narrators of the hadiths were obviously not the ones who got to decide what book they were placed in centuries later by scholars like Majlisi.
Allamah al-Majlisi
Muhammad Baqir Majlesi, known as Allamah Majlesi or Majlesi-ye Thani , was a renowned and very powerful Iranian Twelver Shi'a cleric, during the Safavid era...
in the 16th century.
It is a major secondary source of hadiths, which elaborates on hadith drawn from primary sources compiled centuries earlier such as al-Kafi and Man Yadhuru'l Faqih
Man la yahduruhu al-Faqih
Man lā yahduruhu al-Faqīh is a hadith collection, by the famous Twelver Shi'a hadith scolar Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn Babawaih al-Qummi, commonly known as Ibn Babawaih or Al-Shaykh al-Saduq. This work is included among The Four Books of Twelver Shia Islam. Like all other Twelver Shi'a books...
. Most of the primary Shia hadith collections are from the 10th and 11th centuries CE, and the secondary ones are either from the late Mongol era (14th century) or the Safavid era (16th-17th centuries).
Haqq al-Yaqeen has been criticized by some Shi'a in the words: Haqq al-Yaqeen has many weak narrators, none of the Hadith scholars have graded their narration as Sahih .
However, aside from the weak narrators, it also has many strong ones, and it is a well-researched book and contains more or less complete chains of narration, which many earlier books (including the Sunni collections of Bukhari
Sahih Bukhari
Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī , as it is commonly referred to, is one of the six canonical hadith collections of Islam. These prophetic traditions, or hadith, were collected by the Persian Muslim scholar Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari, after being transmitted orally for generations. Muslims view this as one of...
and Muslim
Sahih Muslim
Sahih Muslim is one of the Six major collections of the hadith in Sunni Islam, oral traditions relating to the words and deeds of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. It is the second most authentic hadith collection after Sahih Al-Bukhari, and is highly acclaimed by Sunni Muslims...
) tend to omit. From the Shia point of view, all hadiths books have at least a few weak narrators, since they were compiled by fallible people, therefore having weak narrators does not invalidate the whole book because hadiths are to be individually graded on their authenticity.
As proof, the narrators of the hadiths were obviously not the ones who got to decide what book they were placed in centuries later by scholars like Majlisi.
Content
- Some hadiths related to the Shi'a view of UmarShi'a view of Umar-Historical context:Umar ibn al-Khattab was one of the earliest figures in the history of Islam. However, the Shia have traditionally asserted that the Sunni perspective of Umar, including ideas inadvertently borrowed by certain Western orientalists, is at best inaccurate, and at worst largely...
- Hadiths related to Islamic ethics and the central beliefs of Islam
- Hadiths with practical advice on living life in accordance with Islamic law (ShariaShariaSharia law, is the moral code and religious law of Islam. Sharia is derived from two primary sources of Islamic law: the precepts set forth in the Quran, and the example set by the Islamic prophet Muhammad in the Sunnah. Fiqh jurisprudence interprets and extends the application of sharia to...
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