Manaqib Ale Abi Talib ( ar, مَنَاقِب آل أَبِي طَالِب ') is a book written by the Shi'a Muslim scholar

Ibn Shahr Ashub Zayn al-Dīn Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Shahrāshūb ibn Abī Naṣr ibn Abī al-Jaysh, more commonly known simply as Ibn Shahrāshūb, died 1192, was a literate Shia commentator, traditionist and jurist. He was an early eminent scholar ...

Author

Abu Jafar Muhammad Ibn Ali Ibn Shahr Ashub or Ibn Shahraˆshuˆ b(489-588 lunar/1096-1192) was an Imami theologian and jurist of Mazandaran in

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. He had the reputation of being the greatest

Shiite Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his successor (''khalīfa'') and the Imam (spiritual and political leader) after him, most ...

scholar of his time and was highly thought of even by the Sunnis. he was known as Rashid Al din And Ezza Al-Din. He also wrote books such as Al Maalim.

Subject

The book is on virtues and characters of Muhammad, twelfth Imams, and companions of Muhammad.

Motive

The Author mentioned reasons for writing the book such as Challenge between

Shia Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his successor (''khalīfa'') and the Imam (spiritual and political leader) after him, mo ...

and Sunni on Imamate or leadership, distorted narrations by some narrators on the subject of Imamate of

Ali ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam ...

Authenticity

The book is admired by both Shia and Sunni scholars and referred by both of them.

Content

Some of the contents of the book are as follow: * Section on Our Sayyed the apostle of Allah * Section on Imamate or leadership * Section on Grades of Ali * Section on Virtues of Ali * Section on Virtues of Fatima Ibn Shahr Ashoub also mentioned sections allocated to each Imam from

Hasan Ibn Ali Hasan ibn Ali ( ar, الحسن بن علي, translit=Al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī; ) was a prominent early Islamic figure. He was the eldest son of Ali and Fatima and a grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He briefly ruled as caliph from Jan ...

to Imam Hasan al-Askari. The book ordered in 4 volumes as follow: * the First volume is concerned with Muhammad's life including prophecy, wars, etc. * the Second volume is concerned with virtues and characters of Ali, also to cruelties against the household of Muhammad chronologically. * the third volume is concerned with Muhammad's sayings on Ali's successorship and reported miracles. * the fourth volume is concerned to the life of other Shiite Imams from second Imam Hasan bin Ali to eleventh Imam Hasan Askari.

Character

There is no chapter or section on twelfth Imam Mahdi, in turn, was a significant theological subject in the period. There is no chapter on companions of Muhammad while the author said he will allocate a section on the subject.

Books on Al Manaqib

Summarizing the book, two other books have been written by the name of Nokhab al Manaqib for household of

and Nahj al Iman both of them by Hoesin ibn Jobayr.

Publication

The book was first published in

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, and next published in

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and K ...

and

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many times.{{cite book, last= Tehrani , first=Aqa Bozorg, title= Al Zariah Fi Tasanif Al Shia, language=Arabic, date=1982–1983, origyear=1403 lunar, publisher=dar Al Azawe Beyrout, volume=15, page=95

External links

* https://books.google.com/books?id=sx1bqgibKhQC&pg=PA370&lpg=PA370&dq=ibn+shahrashub&source=bl&ots=D1REXVFSg6&sig=gfVH1tjrdGuVNh4x3ZXWyr_hUI4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=UxrBU-61FYXkOqGfgdAN&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=ibn%20shahrashub&f=false * http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/journal_of_shia_islamic_studies/v005/5.4.pierce.html

References

Shia hadith collections Ali Shia bibliography