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== | == Number of Hadith it Contains == | ||
[[Yusuf al-Bahrani]], in''Lu'lu' al-Bahrayn'', counts the number of hadith in ''Al-Kafi'' to be 16199, Dr. Husayn Ali Mahfuz, in the preface to ''al-Kafi'', counts 15176, Allamah Majlisi counts 16121 and some contemporary scholars such as al-Shaykh 'Abd al-Rassul al-Ghaffar consider them to be 15503. | |||
The reason for this variancy is due to different methods of counting. For example, some scholars count a hadith transmitted from two different chains as two hadith, while others count it as one. Some have included ''[[mursal]]'' hadith (those hadith which do not have a complete chain of transmitters), while others havn't. There are also rare cases where some hadith are not mentioned in certain manuscripts, and therefore may or may not have been counted.<ref>''Al-kulayni wa al-kafi'', pp. 401 - 402.</ref> | |||
== Researches carried out on ''al-Kafi'' == | == Researches carried out on ''al-Kafi'' == | ||