The Islamic Library

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40 works across 8 subjects. 23 are readable in SacredTwo today; the rest are listed with their author, era and edition while a licensed text is obtained. A work is never shown as available when only its bibliography has been verified.

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40 works

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The Quran

القرآن الكريم

Revealed text · —

114 surahs in the Tanzil Uthmani edition, with attributed translations and permanent verse references.

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Al-Kafi

الكافي

Shaykh al-Kulayni · d. 329 AH

Eight volumes connected: Arabic text, published English translation, chains and published gradings.

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Man La Yahduruhu al-Faqih

من لا يحضره الفقيه

Shaykh al-Saduq · d. 381 AH

The author's own selection of narrations he considered sound, read with its chains.

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Tahdhib al-Ahkam

تهذيب الأحكام

Shaykh al-Tusi · d. 460 AH

The legal narrations with their chains, as the corpus publishes them.

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Nahj al-Balagha

نهج البلاغة

Compiled by al-Sharif al-Radi · d. 406 AH

Sermons, letters and wisdom attributed to Imam Ali, with translation and published assessments.

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Al-Khisal

الخصال

Shaykh al-Saduq · d. 381 AH

Narrations arranged by number — one quality, two, three and onward.

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Al-Tawhid

التوحيد

Shaykh al-Saduq · d. 381 AH

Narrations on divine unity and the attributes of God.

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Uyun Akhbar al-Rida

عيون أخبار الرضا

Shaykh al-Saduq · d. 381 AH

Reports concerning Imam al-Rida, including his disputations.

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Ma'ani al-Akhbar

معاني الأخبار

Shaykh al-Saduq · d. 381 AH

Narrations that explain the meaning of a term or a phrase.

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Al-Amali

الأمالي

Shaykh al-Saduq · d. 381 AH

Dictation sessions transcribed by his students.

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Kamal al-Din wa Tamam al-Ni'ma

كمال الدين وتمام النعمة

Shaykh al-Saduq · d. 381 AH

Narrations on the occultation and the awaited Imam.

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Kamil al-Ziyarat

كامل الزيارات

Ibn Qulawayh al-Qummi · d. 368 AH

Narrations on visitation and the station of the Imams.

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Risalat al-Huquq

رسالة الحقوق

Imam Zayn al-Abidin, as transmitted by al-Saduq · d. 95 AH / 381 AH

The treatise on rights, narration by narration.

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Al-Istibsar

الاستبصار

Shaykh al-Tusi · d. 460 AH

The fourth of the canonical collections. No complete digital edition is connected yet.

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Bihar al-Anwar

بحار الأنوار

Allamah al-Majlisi · d. 1110 AH

A vast encyclopaedia of 110 volumes. Not connected: no verified digital edition is available to reproduce.

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Wasa'il al-Shia

وسائل الشيعة

Shaykh al-Hurr al-Amili · d. 1104 AH

The great legal compilation. Awaiting a licensed digital edition.

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Al-Mizan fi Tafsir al-Quran

الميزان في تفسير القرآن

Allamah al-Tabataba'i · d. 1402 AH

Verse-by-verse tafsir with its method of interpreting the Quran by the Quran.

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Tafsir Nemuneh

تفسير نمونه

Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi and colleagues · contemporary

A contemporary Persian tafsir written for a wide readership.

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Majma' al-Bayan

مجمع البيان

Shaykh al-Tabarsi · d. 548 AH

Classical tafsir with grammar, variant readings and transmitted interpretation.

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Tafsir al-Qummi

تفسير القمي

Ali ibn Ibrahim al-Qummi · d. 307 AH

One of the earliest tafsirs of the school of Ahlul Bayt.

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Tafsir al-Ayyashi

تفسير العياشي

Muhammad ibn Mas'ud al-Ayyashi · d. c. 320 AH

Transmitted interpretation arranged by surah.

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Al-Burhan fi Tafsir al-Quran

البرهان في تفسير القرآن

al-Sayyid Hashim al-Bahrani · d. 1107 AH

A large collection of transmitted commentary.

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Nur al-Thaqalayn

نور الثقلين

al-Shaykh al-Huwayzi · d. 1112 AH

Commentary drawn from the two weighty things: the Quran and the narrations.

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Mafatih al-Jinan

مفاتيح الجنان

Shaykh Abbas al-Qummi · d. 1359 AH

Its supplications and visitations are connected one by one; the compilation's full structure follows as editions are verified.

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Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya

الصحيفة السجادية

Imam Zayn al-Abidin · d. 95 AH

Selected supplications are connected; the complete collection awaits a verified edition.

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Rijal al-Najashi

رجال النجاشي

Ahmad ibn Ali al-Najashi · d. 450 AH

The biographical dictionary of narrators and authors. No licensed text is connected, so narrator names are shown unlinked.

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Awaiting an editionRijal

Rijal al-Tusi

رجال الطوسي

Shaykh al-Tusi · d. 460 AH

Narrators arranged by the Imam they transmitted from.

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Awaiting an editionRijal

Al-Fihrist

الفهرست

Shaykh al-Tusi · d. 460 AH

Authors and their works.

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Ikhtiyar Ma'rifat al-Rijal

اختيار معرفة الرجال

al-Kashshi, edited by al-Tusi · 4th–5th c. AH

The earliest surviving work of Shia narrator criticism.

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Mu'jam Rijal al-Hadith

معجم رجال الحديث

Ayatollah al-Sayyid Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei · d. 1413 AH

The modern reference work on narrators. Reproduction requires the publisher's permission.

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Al-Irshad

الإرشاد

Shaykh al-Mufid · d. 413 AH

A foundational account of the Imams' lives.

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Sahih al-Bukhari

Imam Muhammad al-Bukhari (d. 256 AH)

Muhsin Khan (English), read with the collection's own numbering.

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Sahih Muslim

Imam Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj (d. 261 AH)

English edition, open hadith corpus, read with the collection's own numbering.

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Sunan Abi Dawud

Imam Abu Dawud al-Sijistani (d. 275 AH)

English edition, open hadith corpus, read with the collection's own numbering.

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Jami' at-Tirmidhi

Imam Abu Isa at-Tirmidhi (d. 279 AH)

English edition, open hadith corpus, read with the collection's own numbering.

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Sunan an-Nasa'i

Imam Ahmad an-Nasa'i (d. 303 AH)

English edition, open hadith corpus, read with the collection's own numbering.

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Sunan Ibn Majah

Imam Ibn Majah al-Qazwini (d. 273 AH)

English edition, open hadith corpus, read with the collection's own numbering.

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Muwatta Malik

Imam Malik ibn Anas (d. 179 AH)

English edition, open hadith corpus, read with the collection's own numbering.

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Forty Hadith of an-Nawawi

Imam Yahya al-Nawawi (d. 676 AH)

English edition, open hadith corpus, read with the collection's own numbering.

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Hadith Qudsi

Classical compilation

English edition, open hadith corpus, read with the collection's own numbering.

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