Kamil al Ziyarat

Author

Abul-Gasem Jafar b.Mohammad b. Jafar b.Musab Qulawayh Qumi Bagdadi, known as Ibn Qulawayh was a dominant Shia traditionist and jurist. shaykh Al-Kulayni was his teacher and Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid was one of the his students. Ibn Qulawayh studied at Qum and Egypt. He authored many books that the most prominent is kamil al-ziyarat.

Authenticity

Ibn Qulawayh’s father had relationship with Sad ibn Abdallah al-Qummi al-Ashari, a great Qummi traditionist. The reference of the narration attributed to al-Kulayni and Ali ibn Babawayh Qummi and al-Numani was Sad ibn Abdallah. In kamil al-ziyarat, 61 per cent of traditions had been collected from Qummis like his father in Qum and 13 per cent of them had been narrated from prominent Kufan, Muhammad b.Jafar, al-Bazzaz. This is contingent that in order to collecting traditions Ibn Qulawayh travelled to Baghdad and Egypt. kamil al-ziyarat had been used for developing of some reliable sources like al-Mazar by Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid, Tahdhib al-Ahkam and al-Istibsar by Shaykh Tusi, Bihar al-Anwar, Mustadrak al-Wasa'el and Wasa'el ash-Shi'a.

Context

Kamil al-ziyarat is known as other titles such as al-ziyarat, kamal al-ziyarat but the author had considered kamil al-ziyarat for this book. It contains 843 traditions that set up in 801 chapters.

The shia nature of the kamil al-ziyarat became apparent in some specific chapters of the book. There is 52 traditions at 8-15 chapters associated to Ziyarat of Imam Ali’s grave. Also 69 per cent of tradition are related to visiting of Husayn ibn Ali’s grave.

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