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Al-Ghadīr fī l-kitāb wa l-sunna wa l-adab, lit.: [Event of] Ghadir in the book and tradition and literature) is the title of an eleven-volume book by Allama Amini that proves and defends the immediate succession of Imam Ali (a) to the Prophet of Islam (s).
The author regards the Hadith al-Ghadir as the most authentic and mutawatir (numerously reported) narration from the Holy Prophet (s). To prove this, he has compiled the chains of narration of this hadith from Sahaba (companions of the Prophet (s)) and Tabi'un (companions of the companions of the Prophet (s)) to the scholars of the 14th/20th century from Sunni books to show the mutawatir nature of the hadith. In addition to these numerous chains of narration, the author extensively reports poems from the Sahaba, Tabi'un, and later generations to support his case. Among these discussions, he firmly replies to some of the accusations made by some Sunni scholars against Shi'a, using principles that are accepted in the Sunni faith.
The book discusses the religious knowledge of the first three caliphs and some of its consequences.
To compile the book, Amini travelled to different countries to use their libraries. He says I referred to more than one hundred thousand books and read more than ten thousand of them completely. Writing "al-Ghadir" took more than forty years.
To find sources for his book, al-Ghadir, Allama Amini made a lot of journeys. During these travels, he searched for private and public libraries. He found, studied, and copied sources and citations from different books of these libraries. He would also meet with teachers and spread the message of Shi'a in scholarly circles; sometimes, he gave speeches or led the congregational prayer. Among the cities he traveled with such program were: Hyderabad, Aligarh, Lucknow, Kanpur, Jalali, Rampur, (in India) Fu'ah, Ma'rifa, Cairo, Aleppo, Nubl, Damascus and … ......
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