Kuhl al-basar fi sirat Sayyid al-Bashar (book)

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Kuhl al-basar fi sirat Sayyid al-Bashar (book)
AuthorShaykh Abbas Qummi
Original titleکُحْلُ الْبَصَر فی سیرَة سَید الْبَشَر
LanguageArabic
Series1 vol.
SubjectThe Prophet (s)
GenreHistoric and narrative
Published1377/1957-8
PublisherDifferent publications in Qom and Beirut


Kuḥl al-baṣar fī sīra Sayyid al-Bashar (Arabic: کحل البصر في سیرة سیّد البشر) is a book in Arabic about the life of the Prophet (s), written by Shaykh Abbas Qummi (d. 1359/1941). He wrote the book in 1329/1911. In this book, he briefly recounts the life of the Prophet (s) in five sections. The book has been repeatedly translated into Persian.

The Author

Abbas b. Muhammad Rida Qummi (b. 1294/1877-8 - d. 1359/1941), known as Shaykh Abbas Qummi and Muhaddith Qummi, was a Shiite scholar of the fourteenth/twentieth century. He was a scholar of hadith, a historian, and a preacher. His best-known books are Mafatih al-jinan, Safinat al-bihar, and Muntaha l-amal. Muhaddith Qummi died in Najaf in 1359/1940 and was buried in the Shrine of Ali b. Abi Talib (a).

Date of Writing and the Contents

The work was written in 1329/1911 in Qom.[1] Muhaddith Qummi structured the book in five sections:[2]

  • Lineage (birth, childhood)
  • Moral virtues (virtues, Bi'tha, practice, and tradition)

Publication

Aqa Buzurg Tihrani points that the book was printed in Qom in 1377/1957-8 in 152 pages.[4] The book was later printed and published in Qom (Rasul-i Akram and al-Rasul al-Mustafa publications) and in Beirut (Mu'assisat al-Wafa' and Mu'assisat al-Balagh). Al-Balagh version of the book was edited by Shaykh Abd al-Razzaq Harizinijad.[5]

Notes

  1. Muḥaddith Rabbānī, Kungira-yi Buzurgdāsht, vol. 1, p. 421.
  2. Qummī, Kuḥl al-baṣar fī sīra Sayyid al-Bashar, p. 7.
  3. Qummī, Kuḥl al-baṣar fī sīra Sayyid al-Bashar, index of the book.
  4. Āqā Buzurg al-Tihrānī, al-Dharīʿa ilā taṣānīf al-shīʿa, vol. 17, p. 285.
  5. Muḥaddith Rabbānī, Kungira-yi Buzurgdāsht, vol. 1, p. 421.

References

  • Āqā Buzurg al-Tihrānī, Muḥammad Muḥsin. Al-Dharīʿa ilā taṣānīf al-shīʿa. Beirut: Dār al-Aḍwāʾ, [n.d].
  • Muḥaddith Rabbānī. Kungira-yi Buzurgdāsht. Qom: Nūr Maṭāf, 1389 Sh.
  • Qummī, Shaykh ʿAbbās. Kuḥl al-baṣar fī sīra Sayyid al-Bashar. Beirut: Muʾassisa al-Balāgh, 1429 AH.