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

Al-Kulayni passed away in [[Baghdad]], at the age of 70 in Sha'ban [[329]]/May 941 (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>