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

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'''Abū Jaʿfar, Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq al-Kulaynī Al-Rāzī''' (Arabic: {{ia|ابوجعفر، محمّد بن یعقوب بن اسحاق الرازی}}) (c. [[255]]/869 - [[329]]/940-1) 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 students.

Al-Kulayni passed away in [[Baghdad]], at the age of 70 in [[329]]/940-1 (year of "Tanathur al-Nujum"), the first year of the age of the [[Major Occultation]] of [[Imam al-Mahdi (a)]].<ref>Mudarris, ''Rayḥānat al-adab'', vol. 8, p. 80.</ref> [[Al-Najashi]] and [[al-Shaykh al-Tusi]] have reported that Muhammad b. Ja'far al-Hasani known as Abu Qirat who was a great scholar performed the prayer upon al-Kulayni's body. His body was buried in Bab Kufa. A person called Ibn 'Abdun has seen al-Kulayni's grave in Ta'i road upon which there have been the name of al-Kulayni and the name of his father.<ref>Najāshī, ''Rijāl al-Najāshī'', p. 378; Ṭūsī, ''al-Fihrit'', p. 210-211.</ref> Muhammad Baqir Khwansari wrote that, "what is famous about the grave of al-Kulayni is that it is in the east of Baghdad and tigris river, in the Tikya Mawlawiyya and everyone visits there.<ref>Khwansārī, ''Rawḍāt al-jannāt'', vol. 6, p. 108.</ref>