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 […]
Usul e Kafi
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 […]
Authorization and Compulsion are Invalid
Reading Time: 3 minutesAl-Hasan b. ‘Ali al-Washshā’ asked Imām al-Ridā, peace be on him, about these two matters: “Has Allah entrusted to (His) servants all their affairs?” “Allah is far above this,” retorted […]
Seeing Allah is Impossible
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt is impossible for men to see Allah, the Most High; it was spread among the people of that time that Mohammed, may Allah bless him and his family, had […]
Full Knowledge of Allah’s Essence is Impossible
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt is impossible to describe Allah, the Exalted, with an attribute which encompasses His Holy Essence. Among those who asked the Imām about this matter was Abū Hishām al-Ja‘fari, who […]
Allah likes Generosity
Reading Time: < 1 minuteKulaini has narrated through authentic chains from Imam Ja’far Sadiq (a.s.) that a group of Yemenite nobles came to the Messenger of Allah (S) and among them was a person […]
The Case of a Slave Who Claimed to be the Master of His Master
Reading Time: 2 minutes It has been described by Kulaini and Sheikh on the authority of Imam Jafar Sadiq (A) that during the ‘Khilafat’ (Caliphate) of Hazrat Ali(A) two men, a slave and his […]
The Pious woman
Reading Time: 5 minutesMuhammad Yakub Kulaini quotes from Imam Zain-ul-’Abidin (as) that some people were sailing in a boat when it toppled in a storm. Only one woman survived by hanging on to […]
Neighbours
Reading Time: < 1 minuteImam as-Sadiq (a) narrated: When he lost his second son, Benjamin, Prophet Jacob supplicated to the Lord: “O Lord, is it not time to have Your mercy upon me? You have taken my […]
The Love for Ahlulbayt – 2
Reading Time: 2 minutesAl-Hakam ibn Utaiba related the following: I was with Imam al-Baqir (a) in his house, which was suffocated by his people when an old man came leaning on a stick. […]