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Daiber II Ms. 22

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  1. [1]

    Cover and Preliminary leaves.

  2. [2] [2039] fol. 2v - 255r

    Abu Ja'far Muhammad Ibn Ya'qub al-Kulini (al-Kulayni) أبو جعفر محمد بن يعقوب الكليني : al-Kafi fi ilm al-din الكافي في علم الدين, a section from the furu' فروع. The ms. contains the chapters on al-Nikah ‏ النكاح‏ ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎ (2v-110r), al-Aqiqa ‏ العقيقة‏ ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎ (110v-129r), al-Talaq الطلاق ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎ (129v-174v), al-Hudud الحدود ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎ (175r-212r) and al-Diyat الديات ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎ (212r-255r). These chapters correspond to the printed text (Teheran 1961) vol. V pp. 320-574 and vol. VI pp. 2-53 (= Kitab al-Nikah ‏ كتاب النكاح‏ ); vol. VI pp. 54-176 (= Kitab al-Aqiqa كتاب العقيقة‏ ; Kitab al-Talaq كتاب الطلاق‏ ); vol. VII pp. 174-270 and 271-377 (= Kitab al-Hudud كتاب الحدود ‏ ; Kitab al-Diyat ‏ كتاب الديات‏ ). On the author (died 328/939 or 329/940-1) and his Kafi, the oldest Shiite collection of laws based on hadith → GAS I 540f.; W. Madelung, art. al-Kulayni in EI2; Halm, Schia p.50f. Ayatullah al-Azmi al-Sayyid Husayn al-Tabataba'i al-Barujirdi آية الله العظمي السيد حسين الطباطبائي البروجردي, Tajrid asanid al-Kafi تجريد أسانيد الكافي, I-II, Qom 1409/1988-9 lists the transmitters of all traditions. - The Kafi became one of the four canonical collections on which Imami law is based. Still unknown is its relation to older corpora juris which, like those by Malik Ibn Anas مالك بن أنس (died 179/795; → GAS I 457ff.), his pupil al-Shaybani الشيباني (died 189/805; → GAS I 421ff.) and the moderate Shiite Abd al-Razzaq Ibn Hammam عبد الرزاق بن همام (died 211/827; → GAS I 99; cf. his Musannaf fi al-hadith مصنف في الحديث, I-XI, Beirut 1970-2), rely more on traditions than on individual judgement (ra'y رأي ).

  3. [3]

    Terminal leaves and Back cover.