Reality of Certainty (book)

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Part of a series on Hadith collections v - d - e
Most famous
Sunni six major 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: "The Four Books" (Al-Kutub Al-Arb'ah) Kitab al-Kafi of Kulainy Man la yahduruhu al-Faqih of Shaikh Saduq Tahdhib al-Ahkam by Shaikh Tusi al-Istibsar by Shaykh Tusi Ibadi collections: al-Jami' as-Sahih by al-Rabi' ibn Habib Tartib al-Musnad by al-Warijlani
Sunni collections
Al-Muwatta Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal - 780-855 Sunan al-Darimi - 868 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 - 1500th
Shi'a Twelver collections
The book of Sulaym ibn Qays - 600th Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya - 678-713 Wasael ush-Shia - 1600s Bihar al-Anwar - 1600s Haqq al-Yaqeen - 1600s Ain Al-Hayat - 1600s Sharh Usul al-Kafi - ?-1081
Shi'a Ismaili collections
Qalam-e-Mowla Daim al-Islam
Mu'tazili collections
Nahj with comments - ?-1258

Reality of Certainty (Arabic: Haqq al-Yaqeen) is a Shi'a Twelver hadith collection authored by the major Shia hadith scholar Allamah Mohammad Baqir Majlisi in the 1500s.^[1]

It is a major secondary source of hadiths, which elaborates on hadith drawn from primary sources compiled centuries earlier such as al-Kafi and Man Yadhuru'l Faqih. Most of the primary Shia hadith collections are from the 900s and 1000s CE, and the secondary ones are either from the late Mongol era (1300s) or the Safavid era (1500s - 1600s).

Haqq al-Yaqeen has been criticized by some Shi'a in the words: Haqq al-Yaqeen has many weak narrators, none of the Hadith scholars have graded their narration as Sahih^{[citation needed]}.

However, aside from the weak narrators, it also has many strong ones, and it is a well-researched book and contains more or less complete chains of narration, which many earlier books (including the Sunni collections of Bukhari and Muslim) tend to omit. From the Shia point of view, all hadiths books have at least a few weak narrators, since they were compiled by fallible people, therefore having weak narrators does not invalidate the whole book because hadiths are to be individually graded on their authenticity.

As proof, the narrators of the hadiths were obviously not the ones who got to decide what book they were placed in centuries later by scholars like Majlisi.^{[citation needed]}

Content

Some hadiths related to the Shi'a view of Umar
Hadiths related to Islamic ethics and the central beliefs of Islam
Hadiths with practical advice on living life in accordance with Islamic law (Sharia)

References

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Reality of Certainty (book)