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According to a hadith from [[Imam al-Sadiq (a)]], "kursi" is a sort of knowledge, unique to [[God]], of which He has not informed any of his [[Prophethood|prophet]]s and [[Imams]].<ref>Ṣadūq, ''Maʿānī l-akhbār'', vol. 1, p. 67.</ref> | According to a hadith from [[Imam al-Sadiq (a)]], "kursi" is a sort of knowledge, unique to [[God]], of which He has not informed any of his [[Prophethood|prophet]]s and [[Imams]].<ref>Ṣadūq, ''Maʿānī l-akhbār'', vol. 1, p. 67.</ref> | ||
==Al-Kursi Verse or al-Kursi Verses== | |||
The majority view among Shiite exegetes of the Quran that only verse 255 of [[Sura al-Baqara]] counts as al-Kursi verse, and its two following verses are not part of al-Kursi. 'Allama al-Tabataba'i, the author of Quranic exegesis [[al-Mizan]], believes that al-Kursi verse is verse 255 of Sura al-Baqara, ending in "wa-huwa al-'ali al-'azim." [[Makarim Shirazi]], a contemporary Shiite exegete of the Quran, presents six pieces of evidence that al-Kursi verse is confined to verse 255 of Sura al-Baqara, including: | |||
All verses concerning the virtue of this verse refer only to this verse as al-Kursi verse; | |||
The term "al-kursi" appears only in verse 255; | |||
There are hadiths according to which al-Kursi verse consists of fifty words, and the number of verse 255’s words is fifty. He argues that hadiths in which the recitation of the following two verses is commanded do not refer to those verses as al-Kursi. | |||
Against the majority view, some people have adduced certain [[hadiths]] to demonstrate that verses 256 and 257 of Sura al-Baqara are also part of al-Kursi verses. They believe that such hadiths are the ground for the common practice among the [[Shias]] to recite the following two verses as al-Kursi. Another reason to include verses 256 and 257 in al-Kursi verse is the deep tie between their themes. In his al-ʿUrwat al-wuthqa, [[al-Sayyid Muhammad Kazim al-Yazdi]] believes that one had better recite to the end of verse 257 when reciting al-Kursi verse in the [[burial night prayer|Prayer of Burial Night]]. | |||
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