Bihar al-Anwar
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Overview
Bihar al-Anwar is the most comprehensive hadith collections, documenting over 100,000 items of Twelver Shia hadith along with Majlisi's commentary on these narrations.[1][2] He used about 400 sources written by such Sunni and Shia scholars as Shaykh al-Saduq, Shaykh Tusi, Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid, Sharif al-Murtaza, Muhammad Jamaluddin al-Makki al-Amili, Sayyed Ibn Tawus, Al-Hilli, Zayn al-Din al-Juba'i al'Amili.[3]
The full title of the book is:
Biḥār al-ʾAnwār al-Jāmiʿah li-Durar ʾAkhbār al-ʾAʾimmah al-Aṭhār
(lit. Oceans of Lights: The Compendium for Pearls of Traditions of the Pure Imams)
This lengthy title indicates Majlisi collected anything he had access to in the book.[2][1] His primary goal was to preserve the knowledge for future generations and prevent forgery.[4] Majlisi has acknowledged the forgery issue in the preface of Bihar al-Anwar, emphasizing that the traditions collected were not included without extensive scrutiny, although a consequence of his approach was that he has gathered both "pearls" and "pebbles".
The compilation of Bihar al-Anwar took 36 years, during which Majlisi received aid from other scholars and his students.
Author
Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi was born in 1617 in Isfahan, the capital city of the Persian Empire. A student of Mulla Sadra, he was described in the journal Orient as "an unprecedentedly influential author in the world of Imami Shi'ism".[5] On 1687, he was appointed as Sheikh ul-Islam of Isfahan by the emperor Sultan Husayn.[6] He developed the Twelver doctrine by investigating Shia and Sunni hadith. He wrote over 100 books in Arabic and Persian.[5][4]
Editions
- Majlisī, Muḥammad Bāqir al-, Biḥār al-nwār al-Jāmiʿahli-Durar Akhbār al-Aʾimmat al-Aṭhār [The Oceans of Lights: A Compendium of the Pearls of the Narrations of the Pure Imāms], 110 vols (Beirut: Muʾassasat al-Wafāʾ, 1983).
Commentaries
- Mashra'a bihar al-anwar by Muhammad Asif Mohseni
See also
- Al-Hurr al-Aamili
- Al-Sharif al-Radi
- Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid
- Amina Bint al-Majlisi
- Du'a al-Kumayl
- ibn Babawayh
- List of Shi'a books
- Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
- Nahj al-Balagha
- Safavid conversion of Iran to Shia Islam
- Sharif al-Murtaza
- Shaykh Tusi
- Umdat al-Talib fi Ansabi Ale Abi Talib
References
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External links
- Bihar al-Anwar Volumes 1 – 74 English Translation, compiled by Allamah Majlesi, translated by Hub-e-Ali organization, publicly available for free.
- Bihar Al-Anwar, Kitab al-Ghaybah (Vols. 51, 52 & 53) – The Promised Mahdi, English Translation Part 1 and Part 2, compiled by Allamah Majlesi, translated by Athar Husayn S.H. Rizvi, publicly available for free.
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