Ikhtiyar ma'rifat al-rijal
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title:
Ikhtiyar ma'rifat al-rijal
text:
Ikhtiyār maʿrifat al-rijāl, also known as the Rijāl al-Kashshī, is a Twelver Shi'ite work of biographical evaluation originally written by Muhammad ibn Umar al-Kashshi and abridged by Shaykh Tusi. Al-Kashshi's original work is now lost. The reason given by Tusi to abridge al-Kashshi's work is that it contained many errors. The abridged work as extant today contains 1115 hadiths and refers to 515 companions of the Shi'ite Imams. It is one of the four books of Shi'ite biographical evaluation which
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Medieval Shi'ite work on biographical evaluation
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikhtiyar_ma%27rifat_al-rijal
date created:
2016-02-13T20:46:18Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T05:45:11Z
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