Kitab al-Kafi

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Al-Kafi (Arabic: ٱلْكَافِي, al-Kāfī, 'The Sufficient') is the most important and authoritative hadith collection in Shia Islam, compiled in the first half of the 10th century CE (early 4th century AH) by Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Kulaynī (c. 868–941). It is one of the Four Books (Kutub al Arba'a) of Shia Islam.

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