Muhammad b. Ya'qub al-Kulayni: Difference between revisions

'''Abu Jaʿfar, Muḥammad b. Yaʿqub b. Isḥāq al-Kulayni Al-Rāzī''' (Arabic: {{ia|ابوجعفر، محمّد بن یعقوب بن اسحاق الرازی}}) (c. [[255]]/869 - [[328]]/940) was among the greatest [[Shi'a]] [[hadith]] scholars and the author of ''[[al-Kafi]]'', the most authentic Shi'a [[hadith collection]] and one the [[Four Books]]. He was born after the martyrdom of [[Imam al-'Askari (a)]], at the time of [[Imam al-Mahdi (a)]] and met some hadith transmitters who directly had heard hadiths from Imam al-Hadi (a) and Imam al-'Askari (a). It is said that al-Kulayni was very accurate in transmitting hadiths. [[Ibn Qulawayh], Muhammad b. Ali Majilawayh al-Qummi, Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Zurari were among his pupils.

Kulayni passed away in Baghdad, at the age of 70 years old in 328 AH (year of "Tanathur al-Nujum"), the first year of the age of the Major Occultation of Imam al-Mahdi (a). Najashi and Shaykh al-Tusi have reported that Muhammad b. Ja'far Hasani known as Abu Qirat who was a great scholar performed the prayer upon Kulayni's body. His body was buried in Bab Kufa. A person called Ibn 'Abdun has seen Kulayni's grave in Ta'i road upon which there have been the name of Kulayni and the name of his father. Muhammad Baqir Khwansari wrote that, "what is famous about the grave of Kulayni is that it isin the east of Baghdad and tigris river, in the Tikya Mawlawiyya and everyone visits there.