( al-haqqu ma’a ‘Aliyyin wa ‘Aliyyun ma’al- haqq ) [^12]...

( al-haqqu ma’a ‘Aliyyin wa ‘Aliyyun ma’al- haqq ) [^12] also remains unpublished. الحق مع علي وعلي مع الحق The eleventh part dealing with Hadith al-­Muqatalah [^13] also remains unpublished. The twelfth part deals with Hadith al-Thaqalayn and Hadith al-­Safinah. [^14] It was published in two big volumes, the first of which in 664 pages appeared in 1314/1896 and the second in 891 pages in 1351/ 1932.

Sayyid Hamid Husayn and his work ‘Abaqat have been held in great esteem amongst leading Shi’i scholars and many of them, from Mirza Sayyid Hasan Shirazi, the great marji’ and juristic authority of his days, to contemporary scholars, have extolled the author and his great work. Sayyid ‘Ali Milani, in the first volume of his condensed translation of ‘Abaqat into Arabic, quotes the statements of various scholars. Here we will confine…