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The Four Books (Arabic: ٱلْكُتُب ٱلْأَرْبَعَة, romanized: al-Kutub al-ʾArbaʿa) are the four canonical hadith collections of Shia Islam. The term is used mostly by Twelver Shias.
Name
Collector
No. of hadith
Kitab al-Kafi[a]
Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni al-Razi (329 AH)
16,199
Man La Yahduruhu al-Faqih
Muhammad ibn Babawayh
9,044
Tahdhib al-Ahkam
Shaykh Muhammad Tusi
13,590
Al-Istibsar
Shaykh Muhammad Tusi
5,511
Shi'a Muslims use different books of hadith from those used by Sunni Muslims,[b] who prize the six major hadith collections. In particular, Twelver Shi'a consider many Sunni transmitters of hadith to be unreliable because many of them took the side of Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali instead of only Ali (and the rest of Muhammad's family) and the majority of them were narrated through certain personalities that waged war against Ahlul Bayt or sided with their enemies such as Aisha that fought Ali at Jamal, or Muawiya who did so at Siffin. Hussain (grandson of Muhammad and son of Ali ibn Abi Talib) was martyred at the Battle of Karbala.[2] Shia trust traditions transmitted through the Imams, Muhammad's descendants through Fatima Zahra.[3]
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^Momen, Moojan, Introduction to Shi'i Islam, Yale University Press, 1985, p.28-31
^Momen, Moojan, Introduction to Shi'i Islam, Yale University Press, 1985, p.174
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