A'yan Al Shia volume 4-2
Aʿyān al-Shīʿa (Arabic: أعيان الشيعة) is an Arabic work of the great Shi'a scholar, al-Sayyid Muhsin al-Amin (d. 1371/1951-2) on the introduction of great Shi'a figures and a significant part of it is about the lives of Imams (a). This book is a great biographical encyclopedia of great Shi'a figures since the beginning of Islam until the time of the author, including those among Companions, Followers (Tabi'un), and experts in different fields such as transmission and collection of hadiths, recitation of the Qur'an, jurisprudence, theosophy, theology, Arabic poetry, Arabic linguistics and literature, logic, mathematics, medicine, astronomy and even the names of kings and government officials. The book contains around 12,000 biographies. The original edition was 10 volumes. First volume and a part of the second volume is about the lives of the Prophet (s), Lady Fatima al-Zahra (a), and Imams (a). The rest of the book is about Shi'a notable figures.
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June 15, 2026
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Aʿyān al-Shīʿa (Arabic: أعيان الشيعة) is an Arabic work of the great Shi'a scholar, al-Sayyid Muhsin al-Amin (d. 1371/1951-2) on the introduction of great Shi'a figures and a significant part of it is about the lives of Imams (a). This book is a great biographical encyclopedia of great Shi'a figures since the beginning of Islam until the time of the author, including those among Companions, Followers (Tabi'un), and experts in different fields such as transmission and collection of hadiths, recitation of the Qur'an, jurisprudence, theosophy, theology, Arabic poetry, Arabic linguistics and literature, logic, mathematics, medicine, astronomy and even the names of kings and government officials. The book contains around 12,000 biographies. The original edition was 10 volumes. First volume and a part of the second volume is about the lives of the Prophet (s), Lady Fatima al-Zahra (a), and Imams (a). The rest of the book is about Shi'a notable figures.
