946 the Caliph Mustakfi was blinded by the Buyid Prince...

946 the Caliph Mustakfi was blinded by the Buyid Prince, Mu'izzu'd Dawla, who set up the blinded Caliph's son, al-Muktaddir, as a nominal ruler while he exercised the actual authority himself.

Ibn Athir has related that “the Buyids were fanatical adherents of Ali and firmly convinced that the Abbasids were usurpers of a throne that rightfully belonged to others.”[^6] They did not take over the Caliphate, but in addition to retaining for themselves the authority and perquisites of the government of the provinces, they proclaimed the first ten days of the month of Muharram as a period of public mourning for Husayn,[^7] and they frequently enriched the sanctuary at Kadhmayn with their gifts.

The Caliph Tai' is reported to have led the Friday prayers in the Kadhmayn mosque,[^8] so that in the period of the revival of the Shia influence under the protection of the Buyids, we are certain that the Kadhmayn Shrine was regularly visited by pilgrims and served as “the rallying place of the Shia party.” It was during this period that the four great works of the Shia tradition were compiled. Kulaini died in Baghdad in A.D.

939, after completing his monumental work, the Compendium of the Science of Religion…