Mirza Husain Noori Tabarsi
Mirza Husain Noori Tabarsi popularly known as Muhaddis Noori or Al-Mohaddith Al-Noori, was a Shi'a Islamic Scholar and Shi'a Renaissance.
He came from the town of Noor, Northern Iran in province Tabarestan and was a descendant of the Paduspanids, Spahbed of East dynasty. Mirza Husain Nouri died at the age of 66 years in Najaf and was laid to rest on the right side of the entrance to the Mausoleum of Imam Ali.
Life
Noori was born on 18 Shawwal 1254 AH at the northern Iranian city of Noor in Mazandaran. Following the completion of his preliminary studies, he strove to scrutinize the vast hadith literature and became an authority in this regard.Education
Noori studied in Iraq under Morteza Ansari and Mirza Mohammed Hassan Husseini Shirazi.Noori's masters were:
- Clergyman Mola Fatholah Soltan Abadi
- Molla Shekh Ali Khalili, the jurisprudent
- Mo’ez aldin Seyed Mehdi Ghazvini
- Mirza Mohammad Hashem Khansari
- Ayatollah Haj Molla Kani
Some of his works
Noori was an authority on Islamic sciences, including hadith, exegesis of the Holy Qur'an, theology, and biography of ulema. He had numerous students, including Shaikh Abbas Qomi, the author of the famous prayer and supplication manual "Mafatih al-Jinaan". He wrote numerous works in both Persian and Arabic, many of them were translated to other languages including English and Urdu. His works include:Mustadrak al-Wasāʼil wa-mustanbaṭ al-masāʼil. One of the Shia Hadith-collection books comprising approximately 18 volumes.Mustadrak Al-Vasayel and Mustanbetu Al-Ahkam. This book included many hadiths which dropped from the Vasayel Al-shia.Mustanbetu Al-Ahkam by Mirza Hossein NooriAn-Najm Al-Thāqib fī Aḥwāl Al-Imām Al-Ḥujja Al-Ghāʼeb. A comprehensive book regarding the twelfth Imam of Twelver Shias, written originally in Persian, and was translated lately to English, Arabic and Urdu.Kashf Al-Astār ʿAn Wajh Al-Ghāʼeb ʿAn Al-Abṣār. A refutation to Sunnis regarding the twelfth Imam too, written in Arabic.- Jannat Al-Maʼwā fīman Fāz Biliqāʼ Al-Ḥujja fī Al-Ghayba Al-Kubrā. A collection of tales of those who claim to have met the twelfth Imam during the Major Occultation period, and it was written in Arabic.Nafas Ar-Raḥmān fī Faḍāʼil Salmān. A biography of Salman the Persian.Al-Fayḍ Al-Qudsī fī tarjamat al-ʿAllāmah al-Majlisī. A comprehensive biography of the 17th century renowned cleric Muhammad Baqir Majlisi, and it was printed with Biḥār al-Anwār, and lately printed again separately.Faṣl al-khiṭāb fī ithbāt taḥrīf kitāb Rabb al-arbāb. Title translated as: "The Final Verdict Proving the Corruption of the Book of the Lord of the Lord's". A book proving the Qur'an is corrupted according to Shi'ah thought.Min Behar Al Anwar Maa Takmila.Dār As-Salām fīmā Yataʿallaq Bi Ar-Ruʼyā wal Manām. A treatise on dreams interpretation.Jannat al-Maʼwá : fī dhikr man fāza bi-liqāʼ al-ḥujjah, 3 editions published in 1992 in Arabic The shooting star : English translation of An-Najmus saaqib fee ahwaal-e-Imaamul ghaaeb : an account of the concealment of Imam Mahdi, the twelfth Imam of the twelver Shia Muslims Najm al-s̲āqib : mushtamil bar, aḥvāl-i Imām-i Ghāʼib al-Ṣaḥīfah al-ʻAlawīyah al-mubārakah al-thānīyah : min adʻīyat al-Imām ʻAlī ibn Abī ṬālibKashf al-astār ʻan wajh al-ghāʼib ʻan al-abṣār Kitāb kalimah ṭayyibah Risālah fī ādāb al-mujāwarah : mujāwarat mashāhid al-Aʼimmahal-Najm al-thāqib fī aḥwāl al-Imām al-Ḥujjah al-Ghāʼib Supplement to Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥurr al-ʻĀmilī's Wasāʼil al-Shīʻah ilá taḥṣīl masāʼil al-sharīʻahFayz̤-i qudsī : zindagīnāmah-i ʻAllāmh Muḥammad Bāqir Majlisī Taḥiyat al-zāʼir wa-bulqhat al-mujāwir
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