Book

Al-Ikhtisas

al-Shaykh al-Mufīd

Researcher

al-Shaykh al-Mufīd

Discription of This Book

Al-Ikhtiṣāṣ (Arabic: الإختصاص) is a diverse collection of hadiths by the Infallibles (a) concerning the principles of beliefs, biographies and history, wisdom and preaching, ethics, virtues and miracles of Ahl al-Bayt (a) and vices of their enemies. There is a disagreement about who the author of the book was: in different sources, the book has been attributed to al-Shaykh al-Mufid, Ja'far b. Husayn al-Mu'min, and Abu 'Ali Ahmad b. al-Husayn b. Ahmad b. 'Imran. Some people believe that the author of the book is unknown. However, the book is mainly known as being authored by al-Shaykh al-Mufid.

General Data

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Title of Book

Al-Ikhtisas

Author

al-Shaykh al-Mufīd

Date of death of the author

Researcher/Editor

Subject

Language

Arabic

Number of volumes

Publisher

The World Conference of the Millennium of Sheikh Al-Mufid

Author

Abu ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. al-Nuʿmān al-ʿUkbarī al-Baghdādī (Arabic: محمد بن محمد بن النُعمان العُکبَري البغدادي) (b. 336/948 or 338/950 - d. 413/1022) known as al-Shaykh al-Mufīd (Arabic: الشيخ المفيد) was among the greatest Twelver Shi'a scholars of the second half of the forth/tenth century and early fifth/eleventh century. He was among great revivers of Islamic sciences and among the hardworking preachers of Shi'a culture and jurisprudence. It is said by compiling the principles of jurisprudence, he founded a new approach in ijtihad which was a middle way between two other approaches namely extreme rational approach and hadith-based approach without applying the intellect.

Al-Shaykh al-Saduq, Ibn Junayd al-Iskafi, and Ibn Qulawayh are among the greatest teachers of al-Shaykh al-Mufid. Al-Shaykh al-Tusi, al-Sayyid al-Murtada, al-Sayyid al-Radi, and al-Najashi are his most famous students. His most important works are Al-Muqni'a in jurisprudence, Awa'il al-maqalat in theology, and al-Irshad in the history of Imams.