Tahdhib al-ahkam (book): Difference between revisions

In his autobiography in his ''[[al-Fihrist]]'', [[al-Shaykh al-Tusi]] enumerates 23 main parts or books of [[fiqh]], saying that ''[[al-Istibsar]]'' and ''[[al-Nihaya fi mujarrad al-fiqh wa l-fatwa|al-Nahaya]]'' have the same number of parts. However, the parts of al-shahadat (witnessing or testimony) and al-at'ima wa al-ashriba (eating and drinking) are only independently discussed in the latter two books. Moreover, ''Tahdhib al-ahkam'' contains an independent book of al-ziyarat (pilgrimages) that is absent in the other two works. Therefore, ''Tahdhib al-ahkam'' contains 21 parts or books of fiqh, and the ones mentioned in ''al-Fihrist'' are combinations of parts contained in ''Tahdhib al-ahkam'', ''al-Nahaya'' and ''al-Istibsar''.