Ali ibn Yaqtin and the Cloak
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn those days of the 7th Imam (as) having the audience of the Imam (a.s) of the Time was a very difficult task. People had to face grave danger to their lives […]
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Usul e kafi – How it was Named
Reading Time: 3 minutesBear in mind that the importance of the 4 basic books (kutub e arba’) for the shias is the same as the importance of the sihah sitta for the ahl […]
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 the breaking of the stars, […]
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 lot about Sheik Sadooq’s erudition. Therefore he […]
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 companion of Imam Ali ibne Moosa […]
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 Prophet (s.a) and the Imams […]
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 descendant of the Prophet’s family, […]
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, “It seems that the doctors […]
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 he replied, “It was a […]
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 physicians were unable to cure […]