Al-Istibsar

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Al-Istibsar is one of the major Shia hadith compilations, authored by the scholar Shaykh al-Tusi and widely used in Twelver Shia jurisprudence.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Islamic religious text
Shia hadith collection
aimsTo resolve conflicting hadith reports
alsoKnownAs Al-Istibsar
surface form: Al-Istibsar fima ikhtalafa min al-akhbar
author Shaykh al-Tusi
compiledBy Shaykh al-Tusi
surface form: Abu Jaʿfar Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tusi
contains hadiths attributed to the Shia Imams
focusesOn jurisprudential hadiths
genre Hadith
hasCanonicalStatusIn al-Kafi
surface form: Twelver Shia hadith canon
hasStructure organized by legal topics
influenced later Shia jurists
IslamicSchool Twelver Shia
surface form: Imami Shia
language Arabic
partOf al-Kafi
surface form: Four Books of Shia hadith
primaryPurpose juridical reconciliation of narrations
regionOfInfluence Iranian Shia scholarship
Iraqi Shia scholarship
relatedWork al-Kafi
surface form: Al-Kafi

Man la yahduruhu al-faqih
Tahdhib al-Ahkam
religiousAuthorityFor Twelver Shia
surface form: Twelver Shia scholars
religiousLawDomain Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh)
surface form: Fiqh
religiousTradition Twelver Shia
surface form: Twelver Shia Islam
studiedIn hawza (Shia seminary network)
surface form: Shia seminaries (hawzas)
subject Islamic law
Shia theology
timePeriodOfComposition 11th century
usedFor deriving legal rulings
usedIn Twelver Shia jurisprudence

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Al-Istibsar alsoKnownAs Al-Istibsar
this entity surface form: Al-Istibsar fima ikhtalafa min al-akhbar
Shia Islam usesHadithCollections Al-Istibsar
this entity surface form: Man la yahduruhu al-Faqih
Shia Islam usesHadithCollections Al-Istibsar