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Sunni collections Al-Sihah al-Sittah Sahih al-Bukhari · Sahih Muslim Sunan an-Nasa'i al-Sughra Sunan Abu Dawood Sunan al-Tirmidhi · Sunan Ibn Maja Shi'a Twelver collections Al-Kutub Al-Arb'ah (The Four Books) Kitab al-Kafi of Kulainy Man la yahduruhu al-Faqih of Shaikh Saduq Tahdhib al-Ahkam of Shaikh Tusi al-Istibsar of Shaikh Tusi
Sunni collections
Al-Muwatta Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal (780-855) Sunan al-Darimi (868) Shamaail Tirmidhi ((9th Century) Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah (923) Sahih Ibn Hibbaan (965) Al-Mustadrak alaa al-Sahihain (1014) Mawdu'at al-Kubra (1128-1217) Riyadh as-Saaliheen (1233-1278) Mishkat al-Masabih (1340) Talkhis al-Mustadrak (1274-1348) Majma al-Zawa'id (1335-1405) Bulugh al-Maram (1372-1449) Kanz al-Ummal (16th century) Muntakhab Ahadith (20th Century)
Shi'a Twelver collections
Book of Sulaym ibn Qays (7th century) Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya (678-713) Wasael ush-Shia (17th century) Bihar al-Anwar (17th century) Haqq al-Yaqeen (17th century) Ain Al-Hayat (17th century) Sharh Usul al-Kafi (?-1081)
Shi'a Ismaili collections
Qalam-e-Mowla Daim al-Islam
Mu'tazili collections
'Sharh Nahj al-Balagha (?-1258)
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Oceans of Lights (Arabic: Bihar al-Anwar بحار الأنوار) is a comprehensive collection of traditions (ahadith) compiled by the Shi'i scholar Mulla Muhammad Baqir, known as 'Allama Majlisi (d. 1110/1698). It is a hadith collection, the second source of inspiration in Islam.

Other transliterations:

• Bihar-ul-Anwar
• Biharu-l-Anwar
• Biharu al Anwar
• Biharu al-Anwar

Probably completed between 1106/1694 and 1110/1698, it is an encyclopedia of ahadith, historical subjects and commentaries on many Qur'anic verses.

Bihar al-Anwar has 110 volumes. Majlisi wrote it to gather all the wisdom he could find, in order to preserve that knowledge for following generations. His goal was to collect every single narration available, not to sift through and find the reliable ones, so only a trained scholar can determine which ones are authentic.

The collection is the most comprehensive (as a single collection) among all Islamic hadith collections. The author collected narrations related from the Prophet Muhammad, along with statements by Fatima (the daughter of Muhammad) and the Shi'i Imams, using both Shi'i and Sunni sources. The collection also includes his well-researched commentary on these narrations.

This book is one of the intellectual and scholarly masterworks of the Islamic Heritage.

See also

• List of Shi'a books

Bihar al-Anwar By Shaykh al-Islam Muhammad baqir al Majlisi(d.1110/1698) It has been recently published by the Open School,Chicago and prefaced by Mohammad hussain Jalai in 1421/2000CE

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