The Year of the Breaking of the Stars
Reading Time: 2 minutesShaikh Mohammed bin Yaqoob bin Ishaq Kulaini died in Baghdad in 329 A.H. The year he died is called ‘tanasirul nujoom’ or the year of […]
Month: May 2020
Shaikh Sadooq’s Debate with Rukn al Dawla
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe very famous debate that Sheik Sadooq had was in the court of Rukn al Dawla who was the ruler of the territory of Deelam in Iraq. Rukn al Dawla had heard a […]
Zakaria ibne Adam was greater or Shaikh Sadooq?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSheik Bahai, who is accepted as the Mujaddad of the10th Century , writes that once people asked him whether Zakaria ibne Adam was greater or Sheik Sadooq? Zakaria ibne Adam was a […]
Ali ibne Babawiya Qummi – Father of Shaikh Sadooq (ra)
Reading Time: 4 minutesSheik Sadooq’s father too was a person of high erudition. Imam Hassan Askari (a.s) had written a letter to him in the following manner: After praising Allah, His […]
Man La Yazharul Faqih
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn his preface to the book, al-Saduq writes: When, during my journey, I happened to be in a small town, Ilaq near Balkh, where a […]
Ayatullah Sayyid Gulpaygani & burial place
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne of the relatives of Ayatullah Sayyid Ridha Gulpaygani narrates: ‘Sayyid [Gulpaygani] contacted us some hours before his death from his hospital bed. He said, […]
Ayatullah Marashi Najafi & Poliecemans ghusl money
Reading Time: 2 minutesI knew a policeman who resigned in the era of the Shah. I asked him what convinced him to resign from the post, to which […]
Mohaddes Qummi (ra)
Reading Time: < 1 minuteShaikh Abbas Qummi (ra) narrated the following event from his father, telling us: My father, Mohaddes Qumi was suffering from a severe eye-ache. The Iraqi […]
Shaikh Abbas Qummi fingers a cure
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAbbas Qumi, the great narrator and scholar, who has written more than fifty volumes of useful books, is one of the most pious men of […]
Ayatullah Behbahani & Russian lady jewels
Reading Time: 3 minutes“One of the senior students of the great scholar, Ayatullah al-Udhma Sayyid Muhammad Baqir al-Isfahani (commonly known as al-Wahid al-Behbahani), narrates that he was sitting […]