الكافي في علم الدين
الكافي في علم الدين
al-Kulayni's al-Kafi — the great Shi'i hadith corpus: sixteen thousand reports sorted sound/fair/weak over three parts 1.
Depth
At a glance
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
Overview
"Al-Kafi fi Ilm al-Din" (The Sufficient in the Science of Religion) by Muhammad ibn Yaqub al-Kulayni (al-Kulayni), one of the most comprehensive hadith collections of the Shi'a. 1
What Ahmad Amin says
Ahmad Amin says that it contains sixteen thousand hadiths, which he divided into sound, good, weak and very weak, as the Sunni scholars did. It is in three parts: the first on the principles, and the second and third on the branches of the law. Its compilation took twenty years. 1
Connections
- Authored by
- محمد بن يعقوب الكليني
People and things also explored
Sources
- Duha al-Islam — Ahmad Amin (Hindawi 2012), p. 850, 891
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “الكافي في علم الدين”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/work/al-kafi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.