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The Book of Al-Ghadir - Al-Shia The Scientific and Cultural Website of Shia belief The Book of Al-Ghadir 2024-06-25 2455 Views The Holy Quran , Allama Amini , Kitab al-Ghadir , The Hadith Al-Ghadīr fī l-kitāb wa l-sunna wa l-adab (Event of Ghadir in the book and tradition and literature) is the title of a 11 volume book by ‘Allama Amini that proves and defends the immediate and successorship of Imam ‘Ali (a) to the Prophet of Islam (s).

Contents About The Author About The Book Volumes First Volume Second Volume Third Volume Fourth Volume Fifth Volume Sixth Volume Seventh Volume Eighth Volume Ninth Volume Tenth Volume Eleventh Volume Status Publication, Translation, and Summarization Concluding Part First Chapter Second Chapter Third Chapter Fourth Chapter Encyclopedia of Ghadir Poets References About The Author ‘Abd al-Husayn Amini was born in 1320/1902-3 in Tabriz, Iran.

He had elementary education in his hometown, later he moved to Najaf and benefited from great scholars there. He received the certificate of ijtihad from great Maraja’ like al-Sayyid Abu l-Hasan al-Isfahani (d. 1346/1927-1928) Mirza Muhammad Hussein Na’ini (d. 1355/1937-1938) and Shaykh ‘Abd al-Karim Ha’iri Yazdi (d. 1355/1937) and other scholars, when he was a young student. In each of these certificates, his scholarly achievements and religious and social status are mentioned and praised.

(1) To find sources for his book, al-Ghadir , ‘Allama Amini made a lot of journeys. In these travels, he would search for private or public libraries. He found, studied, and copied sources and citations from different books of these libraries. He would also meet with teachers and spread the message of Shi’a in scholarly circles; sometimes he had speeches or led the congregational prayer.

Among the cities he traveled with such program were: Hyderabad, Aligarh, Lucknow, Kanpur, Jalali, Rampur, (in India) Fu’ah, Ma’rifa, Cairo, Aleppo, Nubl, Damascus and … (2) About The Book The author regards the Hadith al-Ghadir as the most authentic and mutawatir (numerously reported) narration from the Holy Prophet (s).

To prove this, he has compiled the chains of narration of this hadith from Sahaba (companions of the Prophet (s)) and Tabi’un (companions of the companions of the Prophet (s)) to the scholars of the 14th/20th century from Sunni books to show the mutawatir nature of the hadith.