Analysis of The Book of Al-Kafi - Sayed Ahmed Al-Qazwini

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[0:11]undoubtedly the most important book that contains the knowledge of ahlulbait is

[0:19]the book of al-qafi by kalani but unfortunately while we said that

[0:26]almost every muslim knows bukhari sahih al-bukhari may have read it we

[0:30]cannot say we cannot say the same regarding the book of al-qafi

[0:35]when you come to the shia world you find most have no

[0:37]idea what the book of al-qafi is you find that most don't

[0:41]even know who the author of al-qafi is i remember a story

[0:46]that i heard from one of the scholars in chicago his name

[0:50]is sheikh radwan arasto a respectful scholar in chicago who who translated

[0:56]parts of al-qafi to english and you can find it right now

[0:59]right now on the internet he says that after translating some parts

[1:04]of al-qafi he says i went to the city of baghdad this

[1:09]is where al-kulini the author of al-kafi is buried he says i

[1:12]went to the city of baghdad i wanted to visit the grave

[1:17]of al-kulini because i realize what a masterpiece this is what a

[1:20]great book this is and what al-kolani had to go through in

[1:26]order for him to compile the book of el calaini such that

[1:28]our faith to shay was preserved because of al-kulini he says i

[1:32]went i knew it was in this area so i went to

[1:35]that area i could not find this grave i could not find

[1:40]this makam i ask residents shia residents of baghdad that area where

[1:43]is the grave of kulini you know what they say who kulaini

[1:47]who's kalani who's kalani they don't even know who kullani is he

[1:53]says i could not find anyone of the residents of the shopkeepers

[1:57]that's even know who kellenius and this is in baghdad in an

[2:00]area that says all shia allahu akbar what a travesty this is

[2:05]imagine you go to riyadh and you ask someone where is bukhari

[2:08]and they tell you bukhari is that a food what is bukhari

[2:13]subhanallah look at the difference between us the followers of bait and

[2:16]others we do not appreciate our ulama we do not appreciate our

[2:21]own books so that's why you find unfortunately many of us we

[2:25]do not know the book of el cafi we do not know

[2:28]el culini we have not taken the time to read it unfortunately

[2:31]sometimes some of us have spent more time reading books fictional books

[2:37]then we have books that teach us our this is not a

[2:40]normal book we're talking about i'm not not talking about a story

[2:46]of alif leila this is the book where i take my akida

[2:48]from why do i pray in this way why do i fast

[2:51]in this way why do i believe in the imams all the

[2:54]stories of the imams taken from the book of al-qafi we don't

[2:58]even take the time to open it and read it while you

[3:01]find some intellectual muslims masha allah he reads the works of rumi

[3:05]rumi he knows everything about him correct or you find some others

[3:10]who are what immersed into poetry all the poems of allah they've

[3:14]memorized it or for example of ahmad chopi no problem with these

[3:18]books but the thing is when it comes to the knowledge of

[3:22]ahlulbait the hadith of the works the collections of we don't know

[3:27]anything about it we don't take the time to read about these

[3:31]books to open these books and analyze them and understand them and

[3:34]study them ask our youth to tell you the names of five

[3:37]singers today and they will tell you the names of fifty singers

[3:43]not five ask them to name you the names of ten athletes

[3:45]they will name you 100 athletes they will tell you everything about

[3:52]them their biography even what size pants they wear what they eat

[3:56]for dinner correct their haircut style what do they do for everything

[3:59]they know about their athletes and the thing singers and the entertainers

[4:03]of today but ask them about kalani who who is kulaini ask

[4:09]them to name three of the what of the ulama that compiled

[4:11]the books of hadith they won't even know they can't even name

[4:15]one maybe one maybe two maybe three we have hundreds ask them

[4:19]to name you five narrators that narrated our hadith the companions of

[4:24]the imam they can't so they can't name these individuals ask them

[4:28]to what to read you three for a hadith from the book

[4:31]of al-qaeda they don't know this comes to show you brothers and

[4:34]sisters that many of us unfortunately we are only shia by name

[4:40]we think that if my name is ali my name is fatma

[4:44]i come to the hussainia and i eat the good food that

[4:46]offers it to us while i know nothing about the book of

[4:54]al-qafi i have not read the hadith of it and now the

[4:59]new trend is what by the sword of the fakad of imam

[5:02]ali alhamdulillah or sometimes right now you see they're getting it as

[5:06]tattoos the sword of imam ali and they think that makes them

[5:11]a shia while they don't even know three ahadid from imam ali

[5:14]while they don't know three hadith isn't this a tragedy isn't this

[5:21]a travesty brothers and sisters when at least you say that i'm

[5:24]a shia i at least know their teachings i'm not saying follow

[5:26]them fine following the teachings may be hard but at least know

[5:32]them at least study them at least be exposed to the ta'alien

[5:36]and that's why brothers and sisters tonight for the very limited time

[5:41]that i have unfortunately i will speak about the book of al-qafi

[5:44]i want to examine and analyze the book of al-qafi so that

[5:47]we appreciate this book so that we can understand what our ulama

[5:54]did to preserve the school of thought of baits and i'd like

[5:58]to examine it in different steps number one who was the author

[6:03]of this book al-kafi number two why did he write the book

[6:07]of al-qafi number three how did he publish the book of el

[6:10]cavi how did he collect these hadith number four is the book

[6:15]of al-qafi al-sahib similar to al-bukhari number five what makes this book

[6:21]special when we have other books of a hadith and finally which

[6:23]probably i won't have time i wanted to speak about a brief

[6:28]overview of al-qafi but i think i will not have time for

[6:31]that so we begin with number one who is the author of

[6:34]this book al-kafi the author of al-qafi is muhammad eben as his

[6:40]name suggests kulaini he was from the village of kulain kulein was

[6:45]a village that was close to correct array back then array was

[6:51]your present day today so he was a man an alim that

[6:54]lived in that city when was he born el calaini is almost

[6:58]the age of ali so he was born during the same years

[7:03]close to the years of the birth of imam al-mahdi maybe he's

[7:07]only a few years younger than the imam and he lived during

[7:11]the entire we have already that we live in now and we

[7:17]have al basura the minor occultation and kuleni spent his entire life

[7:22]in the minor occultation of imam al-mahdi and he died one year

[7:27]before al-qaeda ended el calaini came from a family all shia loyal

[7:31]to albeit some of his family members were companions of the earlier

[7:35]imams he had one of his uncles for example who was a

[7:39]companion of the earlier imams and he himself was a scholar who

[7:43]became an expert for hadith the science of hadith narrations collecting ahadith

[7:50]analyzing them studying them compiling them and then narrating them and transmitting

[7:57]them to later generations this is the author of the book of

[8:00]al-qa'afi muhammad bin yap and as i said he's buried in baghdad

[8:03]today this is number one number two why did he write this

[8:08]book abel kafi muhammad bin yakub writes in his introduction if you

[8:12]take the book of al-qafi the introduction he tells you why he

[8:16]wrote the book of al-qafi he says i have a dear friend

[8:19]this dear friend comes to me one day and he tells me

[8:24]oh muhammad you're a scholar you have hadith i want you to

[8:29]write a book that contains everything i need of my religion such

[8:32]that this book is coffee what does coffee mean coffee means it's

[8:37]enough it's all you need it's sufficient i want one book which

[8:41]is coffee for me which is all i need i don't want

[8:44]to go back to 100 other books what did this man mean

[8:48]during the time of al-kulini there were so many books of ahadith

[8:51]these books of hadith dated to the time of imam al-baqara because

[8:56]when imam al-baqarah began to teach their companions began to write their

[9:02]hadith each one of the companions would write their hadith and he

[9:06]made his own book very small books correct you find this is

[9:10]the book of zurara this is the book of haris this is

[9:12]the book of for example ibn abi amir this is the book

[9:15]of fulan this is the book of fulan these books of the

[9:20]companions of imam al-bakr the narrations and the sadhak they came to

[9:25]be known as how many of them were there there were 400

[9:29]of them you hear about 400 books they were usually booklets these

[9:36]were all the hadith of it now the problem with these number

[9:42]one is that they were scattered when you take one of it

[9:46]you'll find that it's not organized zurara for example will narrate a

[9:49]hadith from salah and then about kabur and then about qiyama and

[9:52]then he'll go to hijab and then he'll go to khomus it's

[9:56]very very mixed it's not organized and there's only some ahadith correct

[9:59]if you want to see all the hadith from there was no

[10:06]one book that contained all of that so that was one problem

[10:12]the second problem is these 400 books they were scattered in the

[10:17]muslim countries one book is in kufa another isn't another is a

[10:20]nisabul another is in baghdad so if i want to see the

[10:25]hadith of the imam i can't go to one central place and

[10:26]find them i would have to travel across the entire muslim world

[10:31]to find these ahadith so that's why the friend of alkalini he

[10:34]says i want a book that has all the important hadith of

[10:40]the imams such that this book is coffee for me it's enough

[10:42]for me i don't need the other 400 books because it's hard

[10:46]if you need to go searching for 400 books this is where

[10:49]al-kulini says i decided to write al-qafi i wanted to make an

[10:52]encyclopedia of all of the important ahadith of ahlulbait he began to

[11:04]compile this beautiful book of al-qafi this is why he wrote it

[11:07]number three how did he collect all these ahadith now obviously right

[11:14]now alhamdulillah because of internet when you want to gather information about

[11:16]some topic you have the internet you can go to your library

[11:21]correct it's very easy it's very convenient back then these are what

[11:25]are scattered across the muslim world correct el quellaini saw that if

[11:31]he wants to make an encyclopedia of all of the hadith of

[11:35]the imam then he needs to travel that's why al-kulini left his

[11:40]life in kollain and he embarked on a journey he went on

[11:45]a trip to collect the hadith how long did his trip take

[11:49]you and i we go on a business trip we go on

[11:52]on a trip for a vacation for whatever it takes a week

[11:54]two weeks one month three months six months el calaini's trip ended

[12:00]up taking 20 years long 20 years of his life he dedicated

[12:04]traveling and gathering the hadith of bates and writing in his book

[12:12]of al-qafi the first station that he went to was where there's

[12:15]many ulama there from the shia school of the many narrators so

[12:21]he went he spent a couple of years in ray he would

[12:22]go to the ulama and you remember the back then the scholars

[12:27]and the narrators they would not narrate to just anyone why because

[12:31]number one it was a time of they would be afraid that

[12:35]what that you would use some of the hadith against them and

[12:37]number two that they why they would not narrate to anyone because

[12:42]they would be afraid that if they narrate a hadith to you

[12:47]and you're not trustworthy you would go and you would fabricate you

[12:50]would play around with the words so someone comes to me i'm

[12:52]a scholar i say al-imam sadaq said this someone hears it and

[12:56]he goes to another town and he plays around with the words

[12:58]and he says i heard it from the saiyan for example so

[13:02]they were very reluctant to even narrate a hadith unless you are

[13:06]someone trustworthy someone they can trust you so that when you go

[13:11]to another town and you say yes i heard the fulan the

[13:13]big aalem and for example ray saying something this is someone trustworthy

[13:18]so kullani when he goes to obviously he goes to a limb

[13:21]from day one the allah will not give him the information he

[13:23]will not give him the hadith he has to test him he

[13:26]has to live for a while they see his iman they see

[13:29]his taqwa they see that he is also a he knows how

[13:33]to understand a hadith how to examine a hadith only then he

[13:39]would become a student of that alim once he becomes a student

[13:42]of that narrator the alim he begins to narrate the hadith el

[13:44]calaini begins to write them so he spends a few months with

[13:49]this harlem a few months with the alim until for example he

[13:52]has found a couple of thousand hadids and the city of array

[13:57]after he finishes array his second station was where he goes to

[14:01]the city of um the city of um during that time was

[14:05]a hub a main hub for the shia of ahlul bait and

[14:09]it was an academic hub you see how now in home you

[14:10]have the house even during the time freedom and they would teach

[14:23]so the second station that kullani goes to is kom he finds

[14:26]hundreds of big ulama that they're all narrating a hadith so once

[14:30]again he becomes students of them he spends a few years in

[14:36]home likewise not only would go to the scholars he would go

[14:39]to the manuscripts remember each one of the companions had his own

[14:42]booklet he would go to the manuscript and he would take it

[14:46]and he would write it he goes to rei he finds one

[14:48]manuscript of zurara he goes to com he finds another manuscript it's

[14:53]the same book but different versions so he would collect both of

[14:56]them so that he would examine them later and i'll speak about

[14:58]the pres precision of kullani in a few minutes so the second

[15:04]station is i would say most of the hadith that kullani narrates

[15:07]in his book is from for example ali ibn ibrahim when you

[15:11]open the book of kalani you find many of the hadith that

[15:15]he narrates from is from ali ibn ibrahim ali ibn ibrahim was

[15:20]what was a kummi someone that lived in comb so many of

[15:22]his hadith probably most of them he collected it from com he

[15:27]spent many years in home alhamdulillah he's gathered does it stop there

[15:32]no and then he continues to hit to his third station his

[15:35]third station in his trip was where nisabur and he lived there

[15:44]for a few years so thus you find there were narrators those

[15:46]two years the ali was there many of the narrators they heard

[15:51]say this and do that so he went to nisabur to hear

[15:55]the hadith of those narrators now those narrators had died but their

[16:00]students were living so they had the hadith for example he goes

[16:05]to nisabur he spent some time there he collects the hadith from

[16:10]nisa and then he continues to hit four station his fourth station

[16:14]was where baghdad he goes to baghdad the capital of the abbasid

[16:17]empire likewise there were in baghdad there were narrators in baghdad he

[16:22]spends some time in baghdad and he is collecting and collecting and

[16:26]incorporating it in his book al-kafi and ultimately his fifth and final

[16:31]destination is where al-qufa khufa was the she a capital of the

[16:37]world this is where he found thousands of ulama he found hundreds

[16:43]of narrators they're all narrating a hadith from imam zainul abedin from

[16:49]imam al-baqar from imam from amir al-malim from all the imams of

[16:59]bait so he spends time in al-kufa and likewise he narrates many

[17:02]hadith from the scholars and the narrators of elkufa after kufa alhamdulillah

[17:07]20 years of his life he has dedicated for the book of

[17:14]al-qafi finally he comes up with how many a hadith the book

[17:17]of the book of al-qafi contains 16 199 hadiths it has more

[17:24]ahadith than bukhari and muslim combined combined bukhari and muslim together they

[17:30]do not have a hadith as much as the work of one

[17:34]man muhammad islam as they called him the trustworthy the honest so

[17:40]it was because of muhammad ibn yakub that we have this beautiful

[17:43]encyclopedia of what of a hadith of ahlulbait his book represents the

[17:50]noor of ahlulbait the islam of ahlulbait the alam of bait you

[17:53]want to see it go back to the book of al-kafi it

[17:57]was because of el calaini that the knowledge of bait we have

[18:01]it today or else you know those 400 books many of them

[18:05]were lost many of them were destroyed by the enemies had it

[18:09]not been for al-kulini and of course the sheikh tussy later and

[18:12]then the knowledge of bait would have all been lost and we

[18:18]would not know anything about albeit number four is the book of

[18:29]al-qafi all sahih like sahih al-bukhari the muslims believe that bukhari's book

[18:37]and muslims book are all sahih that means anything you find in

[18:41]the book of bukhari muslim it is authentic and rasulullah indeed said

[18:46]it this is the belief of muslims and bukhari and muslim what

[18:51]about al-qafi do we the shia school of thought believe that the

[18:56]book of al-qafi is all sahih yes or no here you will

[19:00]find olama all agree that the book of al-qafi is the most

[19:04]authentic book we have meaning there is no book that is greater

[19:11]than al-qafi so this every island agrees on but where there is

[19:14]disagreement on is this is it all sahih or most of it

[19:21]is here you will find two schools of thought within the shia

[19:25]you'll find two opinions the first opinion is usually the opinion of

[19:30]the akhbaris you know we have the akhbaris they believed and also

[19:34]some osulis by the way not all you know this is not

[19:39]only explicit to exclusive to akhbaris and some they believe that the

[19:43]book of al-qafi is also every hadith in it it is reliable

[19:49]and authentic why three proofs they gave listen carefully number one they

[19:55]said read the introduction of al-kulini he himself kalani testifies in the

[19:59]introduction in the that's all the hadith he's telling us that these

[20:06]ah hadith when i traveled i wouldn't just narrate anything i hear

[20:09]i would make sure that the hadith is reliable only then i

[20:13]would put it in my book they say read the introduction of

[20:20]el kulini he says that he says in he says when my

[20:23]friend asked me to compile a book that is kafi sufficient he

[20:26]said i embarked on a journey of collecting a hadith and then

[20:32]he says thus i have gathered in this book the religion of

[20:35]allah i have gathered the akam of islam and then he says

[20:41]if you ask me what did i base my book on he

[20:42]says i based it on the authentic ahadith of the truthful ones

[20:48]i'll read it in arabic he says he says my book i

[20:59]based it on the authentic hadith of the s himself testified that

[21:12]the hadith so why is there any what and why is there

[21:14]any argument regarding this this is number one number two they say

[21:20]that it is reported al-imam al-mahdi saw this book he saw the

[21:27]book after analyzing and studying this book as reported and imam al-mahdi

[21:33]said al-kafi the book of al-qafi the book of al-qafi is indeed

[21:39]coffee for you it is enough for you meaning he praised it

[21:42]and imam al-mahdi would not praise the book if there are hadiths

[21:47]that are what that are fabricated that are not accepted there are

[21:50]life in that book so the imam he also prays according to

[21:56]the what to the report that's why i'll get to this number

[22:02]three they say that during the time of al-kulini there were what

[22:08]the there were ambassadors of the imam nuwab the imam had four

[22:13]ambassadors one of the job of the ambassadors was to what when

[22:19]someone when a islam writes a book of hadith they would request

[22:22]that book they would examine it and then they would comment on

[22:25]it that's why they'll give you even they'll give you an example

[22:30]one example is found narrated by a sheikhou tussi the sheikh tusi

[22:35]narrates this hadith the story he says that during al-batus the third

[22:42]ambassador was al-hussein he says there was a islam who was called

[22:50]a shall magani a she was also an assistant to al-hussein but

[22:56]then unfortunately he started to drift and he became unfortunately he left

[23:00]the path of bait as shell magani wrote a book book of

[23:05]ahadith he called it a tekleif that book is lost we don't

[23:10]have it no so after he wrote this book he published it

[23:15]the representative direct representative of al-imam al-mahdi he requested a copy of

[23:21]the book he taught he took the book as sheikh tusi says

[23:26]according to the hadith he read it cover to cover he read

[23:30]every single page of it and then he told the shia that

[23:35]everything in this book is sahih except for three hadith three ahadith

[23:38]no this is not reliable we cannot accept them so the akhbari

[23:43]say that this was a custom during when someone writes a book

[23:48]the nua imam yes maybe he would not say anything even though

[23:53]they say al-imam himself said al-kafi kavanaugh but the nawab the ambassadors

[23:59]themselves they would examine the books and they would give their opinion

[24:05]now do we find any reports from the nua the four ambassadors

[24:08]they saw the book of el calaini they saw the book of

[24:13]el cafe and they praised it no they did not say anything

[24:14]about kafi so how does that help the bodies they is living

[24:20]under what under the time of the nua he writes such an

[24:27]important book it's the first shia encyclopedia of the hadith of the

[24:30]imam they say it is not possible that the imams stay silent

[24:36]aflan the nawab stay silent if the book of al-qafi had fabricated

[24:39]a hadith in it why did they stay silent if there were

[24:45]books if there were a hadith which are fabrication which are modul

[24:49]then why did the nua stay silent you may say kulini was

[24:55]not no no kullani was a very influential figure and his book

[24:58]was so important such that after a thousand years it's still the

[25:02]most important book of the shia and the nawab they just sit

[25:06]they stay silent while it's filled with battle so they say the

[25:10]akhbaris the silence of the means that they were okay with it

[25:15]means that there was no problem with or else they should have

[25:17]spoken because the hadith says if you see a innovation if you

[25:26]see battle you can't stay as one of the of imam al-mahdi

[25:28]you can't stay silent you have to come out and say just

[25:32]like they did with shalma they said three of us ahadith are

[25:35]false so since they stayed silent that means they were okay with

[25:38]the book so these are three three arguments they bring the akhbari

[25:43]to prove that the book is authentic it sounds pretty convincing right

[25:51]most ulama of today contemporary they don't accept this most of our

[25:56]malaya do not accept this how as sayadal in his book hadith

[26:02]he comes to refute these arguments he says all these arguments are

[26:07]wrong why he says number one you say that's alkalini in his

[26:12]introduction he says that i relied on i relied on authentic hadith

[26:21]look at how who precise we have to really appreciate our how

[26:25]smart intelligent and the dirk that they have the precision that they

[26:31]have the accuracy he says did not say i only relied on

[26:37]he says i relied on but did he say the word only

[26:42]kullani is he has to be what he has to be careful

[26:46]with his words had kalani said that i relied only we accept

[26:54]that all this book is not say i relied only on a

[27:01]hadith he just said i relied on authentic that means yes most

[27:06]of it is but that does not mean there cannot be some

[27:08]hadith that he included that are not let me give an example

[27:13]let's say i have a company and i have 10 000 employees

[27:15]someone asked me who do who do you rely on in your

[27:21]company employees sometimes i can say i rely let's say on canadians

[27:24]correct if i say i rely on canadians and then you find

[27:28]five immigrants out of the ten thousand would you say that i

[27:34]lied no because i didn't say i only rely on canadians if

[27:38]i would have used only you could say you lied i said

[27:40]i rely on canadians yes 99 of my force workforce is canadians

[27:46]95 that makes sense so a seidel yes believed most of his

[27:51]book was but every single hadith no he did not use the

[27:54]word only so that's why you cannot use this intro this is

[27:58]number one number two is say the hui then he even says

[28:00]more than this he says even if kulaini had said only i

[28:05]would still not accept that kaffir is also even if al-kulini would

[28:10]have said in his introduction that my book only does that mean

[28:28]that he doesn't see killenia as being someone trustworthy no no no

[28:32]he says what does the word sahih mean the word sahih has

[28:39]many interpretations the word sahih is subjective correct what is maybe it

[28:45]is not sahih for say that's why look at say the khoyan

[28:50]is as student said sistani believes some hadith islami comes and says

[28:55]i don't believe the society is he rejecting satan he says this

[28:58]is a hat based on the ishtar this hadith based on he

[29:04]says it's not that's why one of the students of satistani can

[29:08]come and also say my teacher said sistani i love him i

[29:10]respect him he's but i disagree with him but what this is

[29:14]a scholarly disagreement this is an academic disagreement say that he says

[29:19]kulini was not kulaini based on his ishtihad he thought that every

[29:25]hadith hero but but when i analyze the book of al-qafi i

[29:31]don't agree with him that every yes most of it is but

[29:33]every single hadith sahih no and then he said in hui he

[29:38]brings a what he brings ashad he brings evidence he says when

[29:40]you look at the book of el-kulini the book of al-qafi you

[29:45]notice that sometimes it's very rare maybe once or twice kulaini narrates

[29:50]from narrators who were known to be liars there were some narrators

[29:55]who were known to be liars everyone knew this is a liar

[29:57]you know like how we for example perceive abu hurairah right now

[30:02]correct imagine i come on the member and i tell you a

[30:03]hadith and then i say oh abu hurairah no one's going to

[30:07]want to hear it right very rarely sixteen thousand hadees maybe one

[30:13]or two he narrates from some known liars like who said he

[30:18]mentions the example of abul bhuktari abu baktiri if you research about

[30:22]him he was a kadhab all the he is a kaddab do

[30:26]not narrate from him he says when i see and kalani narrating

[30:28]from this guy even though it's one or two hadith how can

[30:33]i say every hadith in an i cannot accept this now you

[30:40]may ask then why did kalani if he was trustworthy kalani why

[30:43]did he narrate from abu bakr al-khelaini can come and reply and

[30:49]say look even though abul bhuktari was a liar that doesn't mean

[30:52]every hadith he's lying in you know there's an expression in iraq

[30:56]where they say they say fateh correct that means even a liar

[31:03]will sometimes tell some truth that's why when you read the book

[31:05]of bukhari when you read the book of muslims many hadith are

[31:10]beautiful you find our imams also said them so for example of

[31:13]abu hurairah we know he used to lie does that mean he

[31:16]used to lie in every hadith no many a hadith abu hurairah

[31:20]narrates that they were true but how do i know it's true

[31:23]because i have other hadith to what to cross examine and to

[31:29]corroborate through so al-khelaini may say this hadith why did i narrate

[31:31]it from abu bakr because this hadith i knew it was right

[31:35]because the words were so powerful i knew only the imams could

[31:40]say it remember what we said about joshua or for example he

[31:43]says that i asked the other shia they said yeah this hadith

[31:46]is narrating we also heard the imam say it so when you

[31:50]have more than one source then you know that he was not

[31:54]lying at the end of the day he says fine that's your

[31:59]opinion that's your ishtahat me as so that's why you find many

[32:07]ulama today they say al-kafi is not al-saheer this is number two

[32:11]number three a seidel then even gives examples he gives examples of

[32:16]a hadith he doesn't give examples he says i analyze the book

[32:19]of al-qafi i found examples a hadith where i can swear these

[32:26]are not true he says i read the entire book of al-qafi

[32:29]sam-a-hadith it's not allah it's just a few he says i can

[32:34]be sure that this is wrong this is false this is not

[32:36]so how can i come and say all of let's say kulaini

[32:39]said it's al-sahib i see some hadith that don't make sense i

[32:44]can accept say the hui does not give an example but i

[32:46]can give you an example based on my opinion now there's a

[32:50]hadith that says imam ali when they went on the member and

[32:52]he told the people he gave them a warning he told them

[32:56]if someone if my son hassan comes to you and he proposes

[33:03]to your daughter do not accept because hassan because my son hassan

[33:07]is what gonna divorce your daughter right away he's someone that constantly

[33:12]divorces correct so he was discouraging people from giving their daughters to

[33:18]his son who's imam hussein let me ask you do you agree

[33:19]with this hadith imam ali said this and kulin he narrates this

[33:24]in his book al-kulini narrates this hadith in his book so this

[33:28]hadith i cannot accept it how can i come and say all

[33:32]of al-qaeda now why did kalani narrate this he has his own

[33:34]judgment he has his own opinion we don't know how he's dead

[33:39]now but if i were to ask kulaini maybe kalani were to

[33:40]say that imam ali did say this but he did imam ali

[33:46]was doing takaya for example because he wanted to protect imam hasan

[33:49]from someone or something so maybe he has a justification maybe he

[33:55]didn't believe that it was the but at the end of the

[33:57]day i cannot accept such a hadith and finally the report that

[34:01]says where do we find this report who said this who heard

[34:10]imam mahdi say al-kafi felicia so it's only a rumor that cannot

[34:17]be verified yes it's been reported but can we verify that indeed

[34:21]said so because of all of this most ulama today including said

[34:29]sistani passed away and all the ulama most of them excuse me

[34:33]they believe that the book of al-qafi is not al-sahi but brothers

[34:38]and sisters let not this undermine the book do not belittle the

[34:41]book do not allow this to what to make the book appear

[34:46]as if it's not important at the end of the day the

[34:48]book of al-qafi is still the most important shia book and most

[34:53]of it is based on my opinion i would say 90 to

[34:59]95 percent of it to sahih but this is what this is

[35:00]subjective this will differ based on to another islam so do not

[35:05]let this undermine it we're just saying it's not all sahih we're

[35:09]not trying to belittle the book it is still the greatest work

[35:12]ever done on the hadith this is number four number five what's

[35:19]so special about the book of el kafi there's other books of

[35:25]ahadith three things number one is kulaini himself mentioned that when it

[35:31]comes to being precise when it comes to expertise with hadith you

[35:36]will find no one like kullini wouldn't just listen and write right

[35:40]right kuleni was a scholar he was very very precise he would

[35:46]only narrate a hadith until he was a hundred percent sure this

[35:51]was how the narrator heard it from the imam for example he

[35:53]goes to the city of qom he finds a manuscript of of

[35:57]the hadith of zurara he goes to kufa he finds the same

[36:02]hadith but another manuscript we have manuscripts so now he has two

[36:06]manuscripts he looks at them he sees there's discrepancies in them the

[36:11]manuscript in comb is saying that zurara heard this but the manuscript

[36:17]in kufa says heard something else so what does he do in

[36:22]the situation and it's all authentic reliable people that are giving him

[36:26]these manuscripts he would sit for months and he would cross-examine the

[36:30]manuscripts he would look at them analyze them study them and then

[36:35]finally in the end he would choose the version that based on

[36:37]his knowledge would be the best so he had so much expertise

[36:42]in al-mulhadi sometimes he would find the hadith and kuffa for example

[36:46]the hadith doesn't make sense no one is lying all of the

[36:48]narrators are what are reliable but the hadith doesn't make sense he

[36:51]would realize that there are missing words from that so he would

[36:57]go and ask narrator after narrator alem after alam until sometimes he

[37:01]finds another variation which completes that older variation so he did a

[37:06]lot of what research a lot of studying so that he can

[37:09]add the hadith in his book so this is number one the

[37:14]expertise of el kulini is unmatched that's why some contemporary ulama mentioned

[37:18]that if you see al-kulini narrating one hadith and another aalim like

[37:23]for example sheikh tusi narrating the same hadith but they are narrating

[37:27]it differently there's a discrepancy there are two versions we what we

[37:32]give preference to kulaini because his expertise in hadith was greater than

[37:36]all the other ulama this is number one what makes the book

[37:41]of al-kafi special number two was that the book of al-qafi is

[37:44]all muslim remember we spoke about mursal and musnat we have some

[37:47]books they're beautiful filled with knowledge of bait but the problem it's

[37:50]all morsel there's no link like the book of el ayasi tafsir

[37:56]ayashi is beautiful but he doesn't tell you how he got the

[37:58]hadith from imam he lived 100 years after his 200 years he

[38:03]just says what's your link who are the narrators what's the chain

[38:07]he omitted it he had a chain he omitted it there's other

[38:11]books like it takes out the senate the book of al-qa'afi is

[38:15]all muslim he tells you exactly how i got the hadith me

[38:21]from ali ibn ibrahim from his father from abn abi ahmed from

[38:24]fulan from fulan from assad he puts so you can examine he

[38:29]puts the chain of narrators in front of you every single hadith

[38:31]is muslim so this is the second merit of the book of

[38:36]el cafi and number three what makes the kafi the book of

[38:40]el cafe so great is the organizational structure of al-qafi he made

[38:45]it so organized because when he's hearing the hadith they're all what

[38:48]dispersed one from salah one from hajj one from humans one hadith

[38:54]of one it's a hadith about imam ali and safin he was

[38:57]the first one to what to organize it it's so beautifully organized

[39:00]so easy for you to find the hadith if you're looking for

[39:05]it he made it into chapters and then sub chapters and in

[39:08]each chapter he tells you he gives you he gives you for

[39:12]example an introduction about that chapter so the organizational structure of the

[39:16]book of el cafe cannot be matched it's it's very beautiful this

[39:19]is the third merit of the book of el cafi and finally

[39:23]real quick i just have a couple of minutes left a brief

[39:26]overview of the book of el cafe the book of el cafe

[39:30]is in three parts number one you have osul kafi the first

[39:32]part of al-qafi is the usual meaning it contains the hadith of

[39:39]osulli meaning tawheed belief in allah messenger of rasulullah being the messenger

[39:43]nubuwa imam ma'ad all of the beliefs of osulli he compiled it

[39:50]in the beginning two volumes right now when it's published usually it's

[39:53]two volumes of solution and what's beautiful about kulaini look at how

[39:57]smart he is you know what's the first chapter in his book

[40:02]you would imagine the first chapter is tauhid allah because religion begins

[40:08]with allah right imam ali says is so smart he puts a

[40:14]chapter before tawheed what kitab the kitab the chapter of intellect any

[40:19]hadith from the imams about intellect why he's trying to tell us

[40:25]two things without akal you can never find allah so why should

[40:27]i start with tahit and if you're not using your thesa hadith

[40:31]will not make sense to you you want to find allah first

[40:35]you have to what you have to open your akhal use your

[40:37]intellect number two allah say that kullani was trying to say that

[40:43]when it comes to solid deen there is no tekkalid you have

[40:45]to use akhil because of salah correct for example why when i

[40:55]have shaq between three and four i do this i don't know

[40:59]i do takalit and furu adin you do but in solid is

[41:01]there no so he put the babel at the chapter of to

[41:07]tell you look when you read these ahadith about o solidin know

[41:13]that there is no t lead your atal has to understand it

[41:15]you see how beautifully he does that the second chapter is what

[41:21]kitab you realize you have to use your you have to seek

[41:24]knowledge you have to go and research seek knowledge to find the

[41:26]truth to find islam so it's so beautiful he puts catabol and

[41:32]then and then he starts to speak about to hate the third

[41:36]chapter is when he begins to compile all of the hadith regarding

[41:39]allah the tawheed of allah the safat of allah the merits of

[41:45]allah all the debates the imams had about allah with atheists with

[41:49]other muslims about anything that has to do with allah 35 chapters

[41:54]has all about what to eat so beautiful you want to know

[42:00]tawheed go to the book of al-qafi the sermons of imam ali

[42:03]of the imams of ahlulbait speaking about allah subhanahu wa ta'ala you

[42:08]can all find this in the book of al-qafi after that he

[42:10]speaks about nubula the prophet muhammad and then he speaks about imam

[42:18]kitab he brings many a hadith hundreds of hadith about the imam

[42:21]why do we believe in the imams of bait it's not opinion

[42:25]he brings a hadith it's only a hadith so he doesn't talk

[42:27]he rarely talks himself it's all a hadith he brings debates of

[42:30]the companions of the imams when they had with other muslims about

[42:35]the khilafah of rasulullah imam ali is the khalifa or not you

[42:38]can find all of that in the book of imam so he

[42:42]continues uh finally in the end ma'ad and then after you finish

[42:48]the book of usual remember the first part is the second part

[42:52]of his book is for ro al-kafi for al-qaeda is what for

[42:57]adding the all the hadith of the imams about salah about hajj

[43:02]about fasting about halal and haram food about doing business riba for

[43:06]example all of that you find it in furu al-kafi also cafe

[43:11]two volumes for el cafe eight volumes and finally you have a

[43:15]rava rava tulka rava means garden this in this last part he

[43:21]puts any miscellaneous any miscellaneous hadiths sermons of the imam the imams

[43:26]used to have khutab sermons he put it in the last part

[43:29]which is called today it is published in 12 volumes and now

[43:33]brothers and sisters there is a beautiful effort like i mentioned in

[43:38]the beginning of a group in chicago who are translating it to

[43:43]english and not only are they translating translating it but they also

[43:47]explain each hadith there's a commentary under each hadith is this reliable

[43:51]is it not reliable what is the imam saying and you can

[43:53]find it on amazon it's called al-kafi and you can find it

[43:58]even on itunes itunes you know ibooks write al-qafi and you can

[44:02]download the book so now we have no excuse al-kulini went through

[44:04]so much brothers and sisters in order to compile these hadith 20

[44:11]years of his life so much hard work so much effort now

[44:12]it's ready for us on a gold platter you just have to

[44:16]read we have no excuse brothers and sisters for ignorance anymore you

[44:20]don't speak arabi download it in english from itunes and read it

[44:24]and learn about the hadith of albeit i ask allah subhanahu wa

[44:30]ta'ala to bless us all accept forgive us of our deeds i

[44:33]ask allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to hasten the reappearance of our moala

[44:38]sahib al-asri was zaman and let us end by reciting surat al-fatiha

[44:41]for all the muhammadin and muhammad that have passed away after a

[44:44]loud salawat for muhammad and al muhammad

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