Bihar al-Anwar

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Oceans of Lights (Arabic: Bihar al-Anwar بحار الأنوار) is a comprehensive collection of traditions (ahadith) compiled by the Shi'i scholar Mulla Muhammad Baqir, known as 'Allama Majlisi (d. 1110/1698). It is a hadith collection, the second source of inspiration in Islam.

Completed sometime around 1106/1694, it is an encyclopedia of ahadith, historical subjects and commentaries on many Qur'anic verses.

Bihar al-Anwar has 110 volumes. Majlisi wrote it to gather all the wisdom he could find, in order to preserve that knowledge for following generations. The collection is the most comprehensive (as a single collection) among all Islamic hadith collections. The author collected narrations related from the Prophet Muhammad, along with statements by Fatima (the daughter of Muhammad) and the Shi'i Imams, using both Shi'i and Sunni sources. The collection also includes his well-researched commentary on these narrations.

However, it must be kept in mind that Majlisi's goal was to collect every single narration available, not sift through and find the reliable ones, so only a trained scholar can determine which ones are authentic.

Criticism

The book has been greatly criticized by some Sunni Scholars for what they consider contains extremism about Ali and what he is attributed with therein, and also other things which are not conformant with their view of Sunni Islam. The Sunni School of thought relys on the Hadith collections of Ismael Bokhari, Ahmed Hanbal, Muslim and Ibn Maja.

Other transliterations: Bihar-ul-Anwar, Biharu-l-Anwar, Biharu al Anwar, Biharu al-Anwar

This book is one of the intellectual and scholarly masterworks of Islamic Heritage. It continues to benefit and inspire scholars and scientists to this day.

See also

• List of Shi'a books

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Bihar al-Anwar By Shaykh al-Islam Muhammad baqir al Majlisi(d.1110/1698) It has been recently published by the Open School,Chicago and prefaced by Mohammad hussain Jalai in 1421/2000CE