Shia hadith research

The Shia collections, narration by narration

Arabic text, the published English translation, the chain of narration and the published gradings of al-Majlisi, al-Behbudi and others — each one attributed and none assigned by SacredTwo.

The four canonical collections & companions

الكافي

Al-Kāfi

Shaykh Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-Kulaynī (d. 329 AH)

Primary

One of the four canonical Shia collections (al-Kutub al-Arbaʿa).

من لا يحضره الفقيه

Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh

Shaykh al-Ṣadūq (d. 381 AH)

Primary

One of the four canonical Shia collections (al-Kutub al-Arbaʿa).

تهذيب الأحكام

Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām

Shaykh al-Ṭūsī (d. 460 AH)

Primary

One of the four canonical Shia collections (al-Kutub al-Arbaʿa).

نهج البلاغة

Nahj al-Balāgha

Compiled by al-Sharīf al-Raḍī (d. 406 AH)

Primary

Sermons, letters and sayings attributed to Imam ʿAlī (a).

Further Shia collections

Al-Amālī, al-Khiṣāl, al-Tawḥīd, ʿUyūn akhbār al-Riḍā, Kamāl al-Dīn and others, each with its chain and its published gradings.

Work

Al-Amālī

Shaykh Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-Mufīd

387 narrations indexed

Work

Al-Amālī

Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣaduq

1,082 narrations indexed

Work

Al-Imāma wa’l-Tabṣira min al-Ḥayra

ʿAlī ibn Bābawayh

190 narrations indexed

Work

Al-Khiṣāl

Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣaduq

1,282 narrations indexed

Work

Al-Tawḥīd

Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣaduq

575 narrations indexed

Work

Faḍāʾil al-Ashhur al-Thalātha

Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣaduq

157 narrations indexed

Work

Faḍaʾil al-Shīʿa

Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣaduq

45 narrations indexed

Work

Kamāl al-Dīn wa Tamām al-Niʿma

Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣaduq

659 narrations indexed

Work

Kāmil al-Ziyārāt

Shaykh Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad al-Qummī

750 narrations indexed

Work

Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ

Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Ghaḍā'irī

226 narrations indexed

Work

Kitāb al-Ghayba

Abū ʿAbd Allah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Nuʿmānī

469 narrations indexed

Work

Kitāb al-Ghayba

Shaykh Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī

774 narrations indexed

Work

Kitāb al-Muʾmin

Ḥusayn b. Saʿīd al-Ahwāzī

201 narrations indexed

Work

Kitāb al-Zuhd

Ḥusayn b. Saʿīd al-Ahwāzī

290 narrations indexed

Work

Maʿānī al-ʾAkhbār

Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣaduq

829 narrations indexed

Work

Muʿjam al-Aḥādīth al-Muʿtabara

Shaykh Muḥammad Āṣif al-Muḥsinī

555 narrations indexed

Work

Risālat al-Ḥuqūq

attributed to Imam Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn (a.s)

49 narrations indexed

Work

Ṣifāt al-Shīʿa

Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣaduq

71 narrations indexed

Work

Thawāb al-Aʿmāl wa ʿiqāb al-Aʿmāl

Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣaduq

1,106 narrations indexed

1

ʿUyūn akhbār al-Riḍā

Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣaduq

347 narrations indexed

2

ʿUyūn akhbār al-Riḍā

Shaykh Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ṣaduq

607 narrations indexed

Text and translations are served from the Thaqalayn Shia library in their published form and are not edited by SacredTwo. Where an edition publishes no authenticity grade, none is shown. The research assistant can quote from 3 volumes today and says so plainly when a question needs one it does not hold.