Shia Hadith Database — Search 50,000+ Narrations of the Ahlul Bayt in Arabic and English
A searchable database of Shia hadith — 50,038 narrations of the Prophet and the Ahlul Bayt, in the original Arabic with English translation, drawn from Primary Collections.
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Al-Kāfi
14,242 narrations
Ghurar al-Ḥikam
11,012 narrations
Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh
6,379 narrations
Mīzān al-Ḥikma
4,612 narrations
Nahj al-Balāgha
2,260 narrations
Mishkāt al-Anwār
1,895 narrations
Al-Amālī
1,469 narrations
Al-Khiṣāl
1,281 narrations
Kitāb al-Ghayba
1,241 narrations
Thawāb al-Aʿmāl wa ʿiqāb al-Aʿmāl
1,106 narrations
ʿUyūn akhbār al-Riḍā
951 narrations
Maʿānī al-ʾAkhbār
829 narrations
Kāmil al-Ziyārāt
750 narrations
Al-Tawḥīd
574 narrations
Muʿjam al-Aḥādīth al-Muʿtabara
555 narrations
Kitāb al-Zuhd
290 narrations
Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ
226 narrations
Kitāb al-Muʾmin
201 narrations
Ṣifāt al-Shīʿa
71 narrations
Risālat al-Ḥuqūq
49 narrations
Faḍaʾil al-Shīʿa
45 narrations
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The men these books lean on most, counted by the narrations their names stand in, or search every narrator.
علي بن إبراهيم بن هاشم
Ali ibn Ibrahim ibn Hashim
ثقة
trustworthy
Rijāl al-Najāshī +2
4,729 chains
4 books
محمد بن يحيى أبو جعفر العطار
Muhammad ibn Yahya al-'Attar
ثقة
trustworthy
Rijāl al-Najāshī
4,210 chains
4 books
إبراهيم بن هاشم
Ibrahim ibn Hashim
مهمل · mentioned, no judgement
4,141 chains
4 books
أحمد بن محمد بن عيسى الأشعري
Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Isa al-Ash'ari
ثقة
trustworthy
Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
3,322 chains
6 books
محمد بن أبي عمير زياد
Muhammad ibn Abi Umayr Ziyad
ثقة
trustworthy
Rijāl al-Najāshī +2
2,879 chains
6 books
أحمد بن محمد بن خالد البرقي
Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalid al-Barqi
ثقة
trustworthy
Rijāl al-Najāshī
1,874 chains
6 books
علي بن الحسين بن موسى
Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Musa
ثقة
trustworthy
Al-Fihrist +1
1,867 chains
5 books
الحسن بن محبوب السراد
al-Hasan ibn Mahbub al-Sarrad
ثقة
trustworthy
Al-Fihrist +2
1,768 chains
5 books
سهل بن زياد
Sahl ibn Ziyād
ثقة
ضعيف
the books divide
1,573 chains
7 books
سعد بن عبد الله بن أبي
Sa'd ibn Allah ibn Abi Khalf
ثقة
trustworthy
Al-Fihrist
1,455 chains
5 books
حماد بن عيسى
Hammad ibn 'Isa
ثقة
trustworthy
Rijāl al-Najāshī +4
1,123 chains
7 books
أحمد بن إدريس بن أحمد
Ahmad ibn Idris ibn Ahmad
ثقة
trustworthy
Rijāl al-Najāshī +1
1,092 chains
4 books
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This database collects Shi`i Islamic hadith from available translations, online and in print, from renowned primary sources. Its objective is to make Shi'i Islamic hadith easy to search online. The contents and translations remain the responsibility of their original sources.
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