It includes hadiths pertaining to the following topics...

It includes hadiths pertaining to the following topics: Interpretation of some verses of the Qur’an Advices of the (a.s) Dreams and their types Health problems and cures Creation of the universe and some phenomena The history of some prophets (a.s) The merit of Shi’a and their duties Some historical issues of early Islam and the time of Imam ‘Ali’s (a.s) government Imam al-Mahdi (ajfs), his attributes, companions and the attributes of his time The biographies of some companions and other individuals Number of Hadiths Yusuf al-Bahrani, in Lu’lu’ al-Bahrayn, counts the number of hadiths in al-Kafi to be 16,199, Dr.

Husayn ‘Ali Mahfuz, in the preface to al-Kafi, counts 15,176, al-Allama al-Majlisi counts 16,121 and some contemporary scholars such as al-Shaykh ‘Abd al-Rassul al-Ghaffar consider it to be 15,503. The reason for this variancy in number is due to different methods of counting. For example, some scholars count a hadith transmitted from two different chains as two hadiths,