Dala'il al-imama (book): Difference between revisions

Except for lady Fatima (s) and Imam al-Mahdi (a), the biography for each Imam contains these chapters: identification, sobriquets, mother, doorkeeper (close companions), engraved words on the ring, children and miracles. In subsequent manuscripts there is no chapter about the doorkeepers (close companions).

Biography of lady Fatima (a) starts with her Musnad and contains topics such as: the news of her birth, meaning of Muhaddatha, emigration, marriage, Khutbat al-‘Aqd, Mahr (dowery), Zifaf (consummation), Fadak, visiting of women of Medina, Mushaf, her supplication, will, her dream before her martyrdom and hadiths about her virtues. In the chapter of Fadak, he has narrated the Hadith of Fadak from several chains of narrators.

The last part of the book contains different topics such as: the existence of al-Qa’im (a), the hadith of the mother of Imam al-Mahdi (a) and her life story, Imam al-Mahdi’s birth, lineage, Kuniya, sobriquets, people who saw Imam al-Mahdi (a) during the life of his father, hadiths about the necessity of Occultation (Ghayba), people who saw Imam al-Mahdi (a) during Occultation, supplication of Imam al-Mahdi (a) and the name of his companions.