Mirza Husain Noori Tabarsi ( fa, میرزا حسین نوری طبرسی, ar, الميرزا حسين النوري الطبرسي) (1838 - 1902) popularly known as Muhaddis Noori / Al-Mohaddith Al-Noori, was a

Shi'a Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest Islamic schools and branches, branch of Islam. It holds that the Prophets and messengers in Islam, Islamic prophet Muhammad in Islam, Muhammad designated Ali, ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his S ...

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Scholar and

Renaissance. He came from the town of Noor,

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in province

Tabarestan Tabaristan or Tabarestan ( fa, طبرستان, Ṭabarestān, or mzn, تبرستون, Tabarestun, ultimately from Middle Persian: , ''Tapur(i)stān''), was the name applied to a mountainous region located on the Caspian coast of northern Iran. ...

and was a descendant of the

Paduspanids The Baduspanids or Badusbanids ( fa, پادوسبانیان, Pâdusbâniân), were a local Iranian dynasty of Tabaristan which ruled over Ruyan/Rustamdar. The dynasty was established in 665, and with 933 years of rule as the longest dynasty in I ...

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of East dynasty. Mirza Husain Nouri died at the age of 66 years in

Najaf Najaf ( ar, ٱلنَّجَف) or An-Najaf al-Ashraf ( ar, ٱلنَّجَف ٱلْأَشْرَف), also known as Baniqia ( ar, بَانِيقِيَا), is a city in central Iraq about 160 km (100 mi) south of Baghdad. Its estimated popula ...

and was laid to rest on the right side of the entrance to the Mausoleum of

Imam 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. ...

Life

Noori was born on 18

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1254 AH at the northern Iranian city of Nour in Mazandaran. Following the completion of his preliminary studies, he strove to scrutinize the vast hadith literature and became an authority in this regard.

Education

Noori studied in Iraq under

Morteza Ansari Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Murtadha al-Ansari al-Tostari (1781–1864), ( ar, مرتضی الأنصاري التستري; fa, مرتضی انصاری شوشتری ), also transliterated as Mortaza Ansari Shushtari, was a Shia jurist who "was general ...

and

Mirza Mohammed Hassan Husseini Shirazi al-Mujadid al-Shirazi, ar, المجدد الشيرازي , birth_name = , birth_date = April 25, 1815 , birth_place = Shiraz, Qajar Iran , death_date = , death_place = Samarra, Ottoman Iraq , resting_ ...

. He was an authority on Islamic sciences, including hadith, exegesis of the Holy Qur'an, theology, and biography of ulema. Noori's masters were: * Clergyman Mola Fatholah Soltan Abadi * Molla Shekh Ali Khalili, the jurisprudent * Mo’ez aldin Seyed Mehdi Ghazvini * Mirza Mohammad Hashem Khansari * Ayatollah Haj Molla Kani

Some of his Works

Noori was an authority on Islamic sciences, including hadith, exegesis of the Holy Qur'an, theology, and biography of ulema. He had numerous students, including Shaikh Abbas Qomi, the author of the famous prayer and supplication manual, "Mafatih al-Jinaan" (Keys of Paradise). He wrote numerous works in both

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and

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, many of them were translated to other languages including

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and

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
''

Hadith Ḥadīth ( or ; ar, حديث, , , , , , , literally "talk" or "discourse") or Athar ( ar, أثر, , literally "remnant"/"effect") refers to what the majority of Muslims believe to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approval ...

-collection books comprising approximately 18 volumes. Mustadrak Al-vasayel and Mustanbetu Al-Ahkam by Mirza Hossein Noori (1320 AD.). This book included many Hadiths which dropped from the vasayel Al-shia.<>The Primary Sources of Shia Jurisprudence* , 모 자 파 리**, , 제35권 제3호 015. 02 143~166, Mohammad Hassan Mozafari * Mustanbetu Al-Ahkam by Mirza Hossein Noori * An-Najm Al-Thāqib fī Aḥwāl Al-Imām Al-Ḥujja Al-Ghāʼeb (translated to English as ''the Shooting star''). A comprehensive book regarding

the twelfth Imam The Twelfth Imam is a Christian fiction book written by Joel C. Rosenberg. It revolves around the story of a CIA operative who destroys Iran's nuclear capability.

of Twelver Shias, written originally in Persian, and was translated lately to English, Arabic and Urdu. English Translation of: The Shooting Star - An-Najmus Saaqib Fee Ahwaal-e-Imaamul Ghaaeb in PDF format * Kashf Al-Astār ʿAn Wajh Al-Ghāʼeb ʿAn Al-Abṣār. A refutation to Sunnis regarding the twelfth Imam too, written in Arabic. * Jannat Al-Maʼwā fīman Fāz Biliqāʼ Al-Ḥujja fī Al-Ghayba Al-Kubrā. A collection of tales of those who claim to have met the twelfth Imam during the Major Occultation period, and it was written in Arabic. * Nafas Ar-Raḥmān fī Faḍāʼil Salmān. A biography of

Salman the Persian Salman the Persian or Salmān al-Fārsī ( ar, سَلْمَان ٱلْفَارِسِيّ), born Rūzbeh Khoshnūdān ( fa, ), was a Persian companion (Sahaba) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He was raised as a Zoroastrian in Sasanian Persia, t ...

. * Al-Fayḍ Al-Qudsī fī tarjamat al-ʿAllāmah al-Majlisī. A comprehensive biography of the 17th century renowned cleric

Muhammad Baqir Majlisi Mohammad Baqer Majlesi (b. 1037/1628-29 – d. 1110/1699) ( fa, علامه مجلسی ''Allameh Majlesi''; also Romanized as: Majlessi, Majlisi, Madjlessi), known as Allamah Majlesi or Majlesi Al-Thani (Majlesi the Second), was a renowned and ver ...

, and it was printed with Biḥār al-Anwār, and lately printed again separately. * Faṣl al-khiṭāb fī ithbāt taḥrīf kitāb Rabb al-arbāb Shīʻah > Shīʻah Doctrines, Published 1881, al-Nūrī al-Ṭabarsī, HathiTrust Digital Library. * Min Behar Al Anwar Maa Takmila (Digital Library of India Item 2015.324119). * Dār As-Salām fīmā Yataʿallaq Bi Ar-Ruʼyā wal Manām. A treatise on dreams interpretation. * Jannat al-Maʼwá : fī dhikr man fāza bi-liqāʼ al-ḥujjah, 3 editions published in 1992 in Arabic * The shooting star : English translation of An-Najmus saaqib fee ahwaal-e-Imaamul ghaaeb : an account of the concealment of Imam Mahdi (a.s.), the twelfth Imam of the twelver Shia Muslims (1 edition published in 2009 in English) * Najm al-s̲āqib : mushtamil bar, aḥvāl-i Imām-i Ghāʼib (4 editions published between 1989 and 1996 in Persian)Najam us Saqib (English Edition) Kindle Edition by Mirza Husain Noori Tabarsi (Autor), Syed Athar Husain SH Rizvi (Übersetzer) * al-Ṣaḥīfah al-ʻAlawīyah al-mubārakah al-thānīyah : min adʻīyat al-Imām ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib * Kashf al-astār ʻan wajh al-ghāʼib ʻan al-abṣār (5 editions published between 1992 and 2011 in Arabic and Persian) * Kitāb kalimah ṭayyibah (in Persian) * Risālah fī ādāb al-mujāwarah : mujāwarat mashāhid al-Aʼimmah * al-Najm al-thāqib fī aḥwāl al-Imām al-Ḥujjah al-Ghāʼib * Supplement to Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥurr al-ʻĀmilī's Wasāʼil al-Shīʻah ilá taḥṣīl masāʼil al-sharīʻah * Fayz̤-i qudsī : zindagīnāmah-i ʻAllāmh Muḥammad Bāqir Majlisī (2 editions published in 1995 in Persian) * Taḥiyat al-zāʼir wa-bulqhat al-mujāwir (2 editions published in 1909 in Persian) * Kalimah ṭayyibah (3 editions published between 1885 and 1924 in Persian)

Death

Noori died in Najaf, aged 66, on 27

Jumada al-Thani Jumada al-Thani ( ar, جُمَادَىٰ ٱلثَّانِي, Jumādā ath-Thānī, lit=The second Jumada) also known as Jumada al-Akhirah ( ar, جُمَادَىٰ ٱلْآخِرَة, link=no, Jumādā al-ʾĀkhirah, lit=The final Jumada), Jumad ...

1320 AH. He was buried on the right side of the entrance to the Mausoleum of Imam Ali.

Allameh Mohaddes Nouri University

Allameh Mohaddes Nouri University Allameh Mohaddes Nouri University or AMNU (Persian: �انشگاه علامه محدث نوری; is a non-profit university in the north of Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country ...

or AMNU ( fa, دانشگاه علامه محدث نوری), formerly known as Institute of Higher Education, is a non-governmental and non-profit university which was founded in 1996 in the town of

Noor, Iran Nur ( fa, نور, Nūr) with other writing ''Nour'' or ''Noor'', ( fa, Nursar, formerly, Suldeh) is a city and capital of Nur County, located on the Caspian Sea in Mazandaran Province of northern Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 21,8 ...

through an official license from Iran's Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (MSRT) with the mission to advance knowledge, science and technology, and train competent and creative talents at undergraduate and graduate levels. It was named after Noori's name.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tabarsi, Mirza Husain Noori Iranian Shia clerics 1838 births 1902 deaths Burials at Imam Ali Mosque People from Nur, Iran