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

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.

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

Author	Shaykh Abbas Qummi
Original title	کُحْلُ الْبَصَر فی سیرَة سَید الْبَشَر
Language	Arabic
Series	1 vol.
Subject	The Prophet (s)
Genre	Historic and narrative
Published	1377/1957-8
Publisher	Different publications in Qom and Beirut

The Author

Main article: Shaykh Abbas Qummi

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. Muhaddith Qummi structured the book in five sections:

• Lineage (birth, childhood)

• Childhood and youth (events of these periods, the life of Abd al-Muttalib and Abu Talib, marriage with lady Khadija (a))

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

• Ghazwas and battles

• The demise of the Prophet (s).

Publication

Aqa Buzurg Tihrani points that the book was printed in Qom in 1377/1957-8 in 152 pages. 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.