Furu al-Kafi

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Sunni six major collections
(Al-Kutub al-Sittah):

  1. Sahih al-Bukhari
  2. Sahih Muslim
  3. al-Sunan al-Sughra
  4. Sunan Abu Da'ud
  5. Sunan al-Tirmidhi
  6. Sunan Ibn Maja/Al-Muwatta

Shi'a collections:

  1. Usul al-Kafi and Furu al-Kafi of Kulayni
  2. Man la Yahduruhu' l-Faqih of Shaikh Saduq
  3. Tahdhibu 'l-Ahkam by al-Tusi
  4. al-Istibsar by al-Tusi

Ibadi collections:

  • al-Jami' as-Sahih by al-Rabi' ibn Habib
  • Tartib al-Musnad by al-Warijlani
Sunni collections
Shi'a collections
Mu'tazili collections

Furu al-Kafi is one of the most authoritarian Shia hadith collections, containing eight volumes. It consists of books and sections on jurisprudence and is one of the authoritative reference books for deduction and independent reasoning (ijtihad) from Islamic law for the Shi'a jurisprudents (fiqh).

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