Al-Istibsar (book): Difference between revisions

According to statistics that the author has given about the hadiths recorded in ''al-Istibsar'', they are 5511 hadiths while in a researched publication of the book, the number of hadiths are 5558 and this difference might be due to the way of counting some special hadiths.

In the first two parts, [[al-Shaykh al-Tusi]] has recorded almost all hadiths with their references, but in the last part, the references are mentioned in a brief way and similar to the style of ''Tahdhib al-ahkam'' and more similar to the style of [[al-Shaykh al-Saduq]] in ''[[Kitab man la yahduruh al-faqih (book)|Man la yahduruh al-faqih]]'' the references of hadiths to [[al-Usul al-arba'ami'a|hadiths Usul]] [original references] are mentioned at the end of the work.

Although in compiling ''al-Istibsar'', al-Shaykh al-Tusi has so much relied on his previous work ''Tahdhib al-ahkam'' , but ''al-Istibsar'' has its own characteristics regarding the general purpose of compilation as well as the chaptering and the order of hadiths in each chapter and is regarded as an independent work. This independence is clearly seen in a list of the author's works and in the words of his contemporary scholar, [[al-Najashi]].

About old copies of ''al-Istibsar'', first the incomplete manuscript transcribed by [[Ja'far b. Ali Mashhadi]] must be mentioned that [[Aqa Buzurg Tihrani]] reports that was available in the library of [[Sayyid Hadi Kashif al-Ghita']] in [[Najaf]]. According to this report, the mentioned copy has been compared with the handwriting of al-Shaykh al-Tusi and the job has finished in 573/1177-1178.

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