Reality of Certainty


Reality of Certainty is a Shiite collection of hadiths authored by Muhammad Baqir Majlisi in the 16th century.
It is a major secondary source of hadiths, which elaborates on hadith drawn from primary sources compiled centuries earlier such as Kitab al-Kafi and Man [la yahduruh al-Faqih]. Most of the primary Shia hadith collections are from the 10th and 11th centuries CE, and the secondary ones are either from the late Mongol or Safavid era.
Although it contains narrations that are considered weak by Shia scholars, it also has many considered as strong narrations, and it is a well-researched book and contains more or less complete chains of narrations, which many earlier books tend to omit. According to the Shia scholarly point of view, all books of narration have at least a few weak narrators, since they were compiled by fallible people, therefore having weak narrators does not invalidate the whole book because narration are to be individually graded on their authenticity.

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