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rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"> <p>It is divided into three sections: <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">Uṣūl al-Kāfī</i></span>, dealing with <a href="/wiki/Epistemology" title="Epistemology">epistemology</a>, <a href="/wiki/Theology" title="Theology">theology</a>, <a href="/wiki/History" title="History">history</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ethics" title="Ethics">ethics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Supplication" title="Supplication">supplication</a>, and the <span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Quran" title="Quran">Qurʾān</a></span></span>; <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">Furūʿ al-Kāfī</i></span>, which is concerned with practical and <a href="/wiki/Islamic_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic law">legal</a> issues; and <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">Rawdat</i></span> (or <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">Rawḍah al-Kāfī</i></span>, which includes miscellaneous traditions, many of which are lengthy letters and speeches transmitted from the <a href="/wiki/Imam" title="Imam">imams</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Howard_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Howard-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In total, <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">al-Kāfī</i></span> comprises 16,199 narrations.<sup id="cite_ref-alislam_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-alislam-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Contents"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Contents</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#Usul_al-Kafi"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext"><i>Usul al-Kafi</i></span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Fur%C5%AB%CA%BF_al-K%C4%81f%C4%AB"><span class="tocnumber">1.2</span> <span class="toctext"><i>Furūʿ al-Kāfī</i></span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Rawdat_al-K%C4%81f%C4%AB"><span class="tocnumber">1.3</span> <span class="toctext"><i>Rawdat al-Kāfī</i></span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Authenticity"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Authenticity</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#Scholarly_remarks"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Scholarly remarks</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#Shia_view_of_al-Kafi_relative_to_other_hadith_books"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Shia view of <i>al-Kafi</i> relative to other hadith books</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#Commentaries"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Commentaries</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Contents">Contents</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Kitab_al-Kafi&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Contents" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Usul_al-Kafi"><i>Usul al-Kafi</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Kitab_al-Kafi&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Usul al-Kafi" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>The first eight books of <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">al-Kāfī</i></span> are commonly referred to as <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">Uṣūl al-Kāfī</i></span>, <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">Uṣūl</i></span> meaning 'Fundamental'. The first typeset edition of the <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">al-Kāfī</i></span>, which was published in eight volumes, placed <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">Uṣūl al-kāfī</i></span> in the first two volumes. Generally speaking, <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">Uṣūl al-kāfī</i></span> contains traditions that deal with epistemology, theology, history, ethics, supplication, and the <span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar-Latn">Qurʾān</span></span>. </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption><b><span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">Uṣūl al-Kāfī</i></span></b>:<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Chapters </th> <th>Traditions </th> <th>Descriptions </th></tr> <tr> <td><span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">Kitāb al-ʿaql wal jahl</i></span> </td> <td>The Book of Intellect and Ignorance </td> <td>36 traditions </td></tr> <tr> <td><span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">Kitāb faḍl al-ʿilm</i></span> </td> <td>The Book of Knowledge and its Merits </td> <td>176 traditions </td></tr> <tr> <td><span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">Kitāb at-tawḥīd</i></span> </td> <td>The Book of God and his Oneness </td> <td>212 traditions </td></tr> <tr> <td><span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">Kitāb al-ḥujjah</i></span> </td> <td>The Book of Divine Guidance </td> <td>1015 traditions </td></tr> <tr> <td><span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">Kitāb al-īmān wal kufr</i></span> </td> <td>The Book of Belief and Unbelief </td> <td>1609 traditions </td></tr> <tr> <td><span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">Kitāb ad-duʿāʾ</i></span> </td> <td>The Book of Supplication </td> <td>409 traditions </td></tr> <tr> <td><span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">Kitāb ʿadhamat al-Qurʾān</i></span> </td> <td>The Book of the Qurʾān and its Merits </td> <td>124 Traditions </td></tr> <tr> <td><span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">Kitāb al-muʿāsharah</i></span> </td> <td>The Book of Social Intercourse </td> <td>464 traditions </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Furūʿ_al-Kāfī"><span id="Fur.C5.AB.CA.BF_al-K.C4.81f.C4.AB"></span><i>Furūʿ al-Kāfī</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Kitab_al-Kafi&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Furūʿ al-Kāfī" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>Books 9 through 34 are referred to as <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">Furūʿ al-Kāfī</i></span> and are found in volumes three through seven of the first typeset edition. <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">Furūʿ al-Kāfī</i></span> contains traditions that deal predominantly with practical and legal issues. </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption><span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">Furū al-Kāfī</i></span> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Chapters </th></tr> <tr> <td>The Book of Purity </td></tr> <tr> <td>The Book of Menstruation </td></tr> <tr> <td>The Book of Funeral Rites </td></tr> <tr> <td>The Book of Prayer </td></tr> <tr> <td>The Book of Charity </td></tr> <tr> <td>The Book of Fasting </td></tr> <tr> <td>The Book of Ḥajj </td></tr> <tr> <td>The Book of Jihād </td></tr> <tr> <td>The Book of Commerce </td></tr> <tr> <td>The Book of Marriage </td></tr> <tr> <td>The Book of Animal Sacrifice upon the Birth of a Child </td></tr> <tr> <td>The Book of Divorce </td></tr> <tr> <td>The Book of Emancipation </td></tr> <tr> <td>The Book of Hunting </td></tr> <tr> <td>The Book of Slaughtering </td></tr> <tr> <td>The Book of Food </td></tr> <tr> <td>The Book of Drink </td></tr> <tr> <td>The Book of Clothing, Beautification, and Honor </td></tr> <tr> <td>The Book of Domesticated Animals </td></tr> <tr> <td>The Book of Testaments </td></tr> <tr> <td>The Book of Inheritance </td></tr> <tr> <td>The Book of Capital and Corporal Punishments </td></tr> <tr> <td>The Book of Restitution and Blood Money </td></tr> <tr> <td>The Book of Testimonies and Depositions </td></tr> <tr> <td>The Book of Adjudication and Legal Precedents </td></tr> <tr> <td>The Book of Oaths, Vows, and Penances </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rawdat_al-Kāfī"><span id="Rawdat_al-K.C4.81f.C4.AB"></span><i>Rawdat al-Kāfī</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Kitab_al-Kafi&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Rawdat al-Kāfī" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>The final book stands alone as <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">Rawdat</i></span> or <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">Rawḍah al-Kāfī</i></span>, which is found in volume eight of the first typeset edition. <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">Rawḍah al-Kāfī</i></span> contains nearly 600 miscellaneous traditions, many of which are lengthy letters and speeches, not arranged in any particular order. </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption> <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">Rawdat al-Kāfī</i></span> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Title </th></tr> <tr> <td>The Book of Miscellanea – literally a garden from which one can pick many kinds of flowers </td></tr></tbody></table> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Authenticity">Authenticity</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Kitab_al-Kafi&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Authenticity" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <p>Most <span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Sh%C4%AB%E2%80%98ah" class="mw-redirect" title="Shī‘ah">Shī‘ah</a></span></span> scholars do not make any assumptions about the authenticity of a hadith book. Most believe that there are no <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">ṣaḥīḥ</i></span> ('sound', 'truthful') hadith books that are completely reliable. Hadith books are compiled by fallible people, and thus realistically, they inevitably have a mixture of strong and weak hadiths. Kulaynī himself stated in his preface that he only collected hadiths he thought were important and sufficient for Muslims to know, and he left the verification of these hadiths up to later scholars. </p><p>According to the <a href="/wiki/Twelver_Shi%27ism" title="Twelver Shi'ism">Imami</a> scholar <span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Zayn_al-Din_al-Juba%27i_al%27Amili" title="Zayn al-Din al-Juba'i al'Amili">Zayn al-Dīn al-ʿĀmili</a></span></span>, known as <span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar-Latn">ash-Shahīd ath-Thāni</span></span> (1505–1559 CE, 911–966 AH), who examined the <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">asanād</i></span> or the chains of transmission of <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">al-Kāfi</i></span> traditions, 5,072 are considered <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">ṣaḥīḥ</i></span>; 144 are regarded as <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">ḥasan</i></span> ('good'), second category; 1,118 are held to be <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">muwathaq</i></span> ('trustworthy'), third category; 302 are adjudged to be <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">qawi</i></span> ('strong') and 9,485 traditions which are categorized as <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">ḍaʿīf</i></span> ('weak').<sup id="cite_ref-Al-Islam_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Al-Islam-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Scholarly_remarks">Scholarly remarks</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Kitab_al-Kafi&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Scholarly remarks" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> <p>The author, <span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Mu%E1%B8%A5ammad_ibn_Ya%CA%BFq%C5%ABb_al-Kulayn%C4%AB" class="mw-redirect" title="Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Kulaynī">Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Kulaynī</a></span></span>, stated in his preface to <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">Al-Kafi</i></span>:<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>You said that you would love to have a sufficient book [<span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar-Latn">kitābun kāfin</span></span>] containing enough of all the religious sciences to suffice the student; to serve as a reference for the disciple; from which those who seek knowledge of the religion and want to act on it can draw authentic traditions from the Truthful [imams] – may God's peace be upon them – and a living example upon which to act, by which our duty to God – almighty is he and sublime – and to the commands of his Prophet – may God's mercy be on him and his progeny – is fulfilled .... God – to whom belongs all praise – has facilitated the compilation of what you requested. I hope it is as you desired.</p></blockquote> <p>Imam <a href="/wiki/Khomeini" class="mw-redirect" title="Khomeini">Khomeini</a> (a prominent 20th century <span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Sh%C4%AB%E2%80%98ah" class="mw-redirect" title="Shī‘ah">Shī‘ah</a></span></span> scholar and statesman) said:<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#What_information_to_include" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="A complete citation is needed. (December 2023)">full citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Do you think it is enough [<span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">kafi</i></span>] for our religious life to have its laws summed up in <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">al-Kāfī</i></span> and then placed upon a shelf?</p></blockquote> <p>The general idea behind this metaphor is that Khomeini objected to the laziness of many ignorant people who simply kept <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">al-Kafi</i></span> on their shelf, and ignored or violated it in their daily lives, assuming that they would somehow be saved from <a href="/wiki/Jahannam" title="Jahannam">Hell</a> just by possessing the book. Khomeini argued that Islamic law should be an integral part of everyday life for the believer, not just a stale manuscript to be placed on a shelf and forgotten. The irony of the allusion is telling; Khomeini implicitly says that <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">al-Kāfī</i></span> (literally 'the Sufficient') is not <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">kafi</i></span> ('enough') to make one a faithful Muslim or be counted among the righteous, unless one uses the wisdom contained within it and acts on it. </p><p><span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Sh%C4%AB%E2%80%98ah" class="mw-redirect" title="Shī‘ah">Shī‘ah</a></span></span> scholar <span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Al-Shaykh_al-Saduq" class="mw-redirect" title="Al-Shaykh al-Saduq">Shaykh Sadūq</a></span></span> did not believe in the complete authenticity of <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">al-Kāfī</i></span>. <a href="/wiki/Khoei" class="mw-redirect" title="Khoei">Khoei</a> points this out in his <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">Mu‘jam Rijāl al-Hadīth</i></span>, or <i>Collection of Men of Narrations</i>, in which he states:<sup id="cite_ref-khoei_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-khoei-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Shaykh as-Sadūq did not regard all of the traditions in <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">al-Kāfī</i></span> to be <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">Șaḥīḥ</i></span> ['truthful']</p></blockquote> <p>Scholars have made such remarks to remind the people that one cannot simply pick the book up, and take whatever they like from it as truthful. Rather, an exhaustive process of authentication must be applied, which leaves the understanding of the book in the hands of the learned. From the <span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Sh%C4%AB%E2%80%98ah" class="mw-redirect" title="Shī‘ah">Shī‘ah</a></span></span> point of view, any book other than the <span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar-Latn">Qurʾān</span></span>, as well as individual hadiths or hadith narrators can be objectively questioned and scrutinized as to their reliability. </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Shia_view_of_al-Kafi_relative_to_other_hadith_books">Shia view of <i>al-Kafi</i> relative to other hadith books</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Kitab_al-Kafi&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Shia view of al-Kafi relative to other hadith books" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> <p>Kulaynī stated in his preface that he only collected hadiths he thought were important and sufficient for Muslims to know, and he left the verification of these hadiths up to later scholars. Kulaynī also states, in reference to hadiths generally:<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>whatever [hadith] agrees with the Book of God [the <span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar-Latn">Qurʾān</span></span>], accept it. And whatever contradicts it, reject it</p></blockquote> <p>The author of <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">al-Kāfi</i></span> never intended for it to be politicized as "infallible", but compiled it to give sincere advice based on Islamic law (regardless of the soundess of any one particular hadith), and to preserve rare hadiths and religious knowledge in an easily accessible collection for future generations to study. </p><p><span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">Al-Kāfi</i></span> is the most comprehensive collection of traditions from the formative period of Islamic scholarship<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>. It has been held in the highest esteem by generation after generation of Muslim scholars. <span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar-Latn">Shaykh al-Mufīd</span></span> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1022 CE) extolled it as "one of the greatest and most beneficial of Shia books". <span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar-Latn">Al-Shahīd al-ʾAwwāl</span></span> (d. 1385 CE) and <span title="Arabic-language text"><span lang="ar-Latn">al-Muḥaqqiq al-Karāki</span></span> (d. 1533 CE) have said, "No book has served the Shia as it has." The father of ʿAllāmah al Majlisī said, "Nothing [else] like it has been written for Islam." </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(5)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Commentaries">Commentaries</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Kitab_al-Kafi&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Commentaries" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-5 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-5"> <ul><li><span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Sharh_U%E1%B9%A3ul_al-K%C4%81fi" class="mw-redirect" title="Sharh Uṣul al-Kāfi">Sharh Uṣul al-Kāfi</a></i></span>, a commentary on <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">Uṣul al-Kāfi</i></span> by <a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Salih_al-Mazandarani" title="Mohammad Salih al-Mazandarani">Mohammad Salih al-Mazandarani</a> (17th century CE)</li> <li><span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn"><a href="/wiki/Mir%27at_al-Uqul" title="Mir'at al-Uqul">Mir'at al-Uqul</a></i></span> ('Mirror of the Mind'), a commentary on <span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">al-Kāfi</i></span> by <a href="/wiki/Mohammad-Baqer_Majlesi" title="Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi">Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi</a> (17th century CE)</li> <li><span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">Sharh Uṣul al-Kāfi</i></span> by <a href="/wiki/Mulla_Sadra" title="Mulla Sadra">Mulla Sadra</a> (17th century CE)</li> <li><span title="Arabic-language text"><i lang="ar-Latn">Șaḥīḥ al-Kāfi</i></span> by Muhammad Baqir al-Behbudi (20th century CE)</li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(6)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Kitab_al-Kafi&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: See also" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-6 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-6"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Shi%27a_books" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Shi'a books">List of Shi'a books</a></li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(7)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Kitab_al-Kafi&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References" class="cdx-button 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