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The Book of Mustadrak Al-Wasa'il - Al-Shia The Scientific and Cultural Website of Shia belief The Book of Mustadrak Al-Wasa’il 2023-02-21 1840 Views Mustadrak al-wasāʾil wa mustanbaṭ al-masāʾil popular known as Mustadrak is a collection of hadiths regarding fiqh (jurisprudence), written by Mirza Husayn Nuri, known as Muhaddith Nuri, a Shiite scholar (d. 1320/1902).

Contents Motivation for writing the book Style of writing Date of writing Features Epilogue of the book Manuscripts Publication References The book is a supplementation (istidrak) of Wasa’il al-shi’a by al-Shaykh al-Hurr al-‘Amili. It counts as the most important work of Mirza Nuri. In this book, Muhaddith Nuri collected over 23,000 hadiths that were not cited in Wasa’il al-shi’a. Mustadrak al-wasa’il counts as a reliable Shiite collection of hadiths written in the 14th/20th century.

In order to derive the rulings of shari’a, a mujtahid refers to Wasa’il al-shi’a first, and then to Mustadrak in order to make sure that every hadith is taken into account. Muhaddith Nuri made a thorough search in order to find reliable sources of hadiths that are not cited in al-Shaykh al-Hurr al-‘Amili’s Wasa’il al-shi’a. These sources include 75 Shiite hadith books the reliability of which are argued for by Muhaddith Nuri in the epilogue of Mustadrak.

The author collected many hadiths from reliable sources that were about to go into oblivion. Muhaddith Nuri revived and added those sources to reliable Shiite collections of hadiths. Motivation for writing the book Muhaddith Nuri chose the book, Wasa’il al-shi’a, for supplementation, because he believed that al-Hurr al-‘Amili provided the most comprehensive collection of hadiths regarding fiqh that should be consulted by all people who seek to derive rulings of shari’a from hadiths.

The author classifies his “supplementation” to Wasa’il al-shi’a into three parts: 1. Hadiths that are cited in old and reliable books, but were not available to al-Shaykh al-Hurr al-‘Amili. 2. Hadiths that are cited in books whose authors were unknown to al-Hurr al-‘Amili and so were not cited by him, but Muhaddith Nuri could identify their authors with his research and show their reliability. 3.

Some hadiths are cited in reliable books that were available to al-Hurr al-‘Amili but he just overlooked them. In an illumination of his motivation for writing the book, Muhaddith Nuri said that supplementing the book, Wasa’il al-shi’a, is a worship.