Misplaced Pages

Part of a series on
Hadith
Hadith studies Hadith sciences Terminology Sahih hadith Types (categories) Biographical evaluation Musannaf Musnad Israʼiliyyat
Collections Sunni Kutub Al-Sittah ("The Six Books") Sahih al-Bukhari صحيح البخاري Sahih Muslim صحيح مسلم Sunan Abi Dawud سنن أبي داود Sunan al-Tirmidhi سنن الترمذي Sunan al-Nasa'i سنن النسائي Sunan ibn Majah سنن ابن ماجه Others Al-Adab al-Mufrad Al-Jami al-Kamil Kanz al-Ummal Kitab al-Athar Majma al-Zawa'id Mu'jam al-Awsat Mu'jam al-Kabeer Mu'jam al-Saghir Musannaf Abd al-Razzaq Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah Musnad Abu Awanah Musnad Abu Hanifa Musnad Abu Ya'la Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal Musnad_al-Bazzar Musnad al-Shafi'i Musnad al-Siraj Musnad al-Firdous Musnad al-Tayalisi Musnad Humaidi Musnad Ishaq ibn Rahwayh Mustadrak ala al-Sahihayn Muwatta Imam Malik Sahih Ibn Hibban Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah Sahifah Hammam ibn Munabbih Shama'il al-Muhammadiyya Sunan al-Kubra Bayhaqi Sunan al-Wusta Bayhaqi Sunan al-Daraqutni Sunan al-Darimi Sunan Nasa'i al-Kubra Sunan Sa'id ibn Mansur Shu'ab al-Iman Tahdhib al-Athar Targhib wal Tarhib Shia Al-Kutub Al-Arb'ah ("The Four Books") Kitab al-Kafi الكتاب الكافي Man La Yahduruhu al-Faqih من لا يحضره الفقيه Tahdhib al-Ahkam تهذیب الاحکام Al-Istibsar الاستبصار Others Al-Wafi Wasa'il al-Shia Mustadrak al-wasa'il Bihar al-Anwar Nahj al-Balagha The Book of Sulaym ibn Qays Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya Risalah al-Huquq Sahifah of al-Ridha Al-Risalah al-Dhahabiah Da'a'im al-Islam Uyoun Akhbar Al-Ridha Haqq al-Yaqeen Ain Al-Hayat Al-Ghadir Ibadi Jami Sahih Tartib al-Musnad - Books also revered by Ahmadiyya
Related topics Ahl al-Hadith Criticism Sheikh al-Hadith
Islam portal • Category
v t e

Essence of Life, or Ayn al-Hayat, is a book of Hadith in Persian by Muhammad Baqir al-Majlisi (1616–1698 CE).

Contents

Chapter Names:

1. Profiles of the Benevolent Companions of the Prophet (A.S.)
2. The Steps
3. The Fundamentals
4. The Benefits
5. Refulgence or Rays of Light
6. The Objectives
7. The Maxims or Regulations
8. The Traits - Qasail
9. Lamaat: The Rays Of Light
10. The Fruits
11. The Stars
12. The Yanabeeh or Streams
13. The Status
14. Masabeeh - The Lamps
15. Invocations

See also

• List of Shi'a books
• Sayyid Murtadhā
• Sayyid Radhī
• Shaykh al-Mufīd
• Shaykh al-Tūsī
• Shaykh al-Sadūq
• Muhammad al-Kulaynī
• Allāmah Majlisī
• Shaykh al-Hur al-Āmilī

References

1. Abdulaziz Abdulhussein Sachedina The just ruler (al-sultān al-ʻādil) in Shīʻite Islam 1988 - Page 275 "Majlisi, Muhammad Baqir al-. 'Ayn al-hayat. Tehran, 1373/1953. "
2. Etan Kohlberg Belief and law in Imāmī Shīʻism 1991 - Page 29 "A very different text to be translated was the second volume of the popular Hayat al-qulub by Muhammad Baqir al- Majlis"
3. Majlisi, Allama Mohammed Baqir (2005). Essence of Life, A translation of Ain al-Hayat. Sayed Tahir Bilgrami. Qum: Ansariyan Publications.

External links

• Ayn al Hayat (English)

This article about an Islamic studies book is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• Shia hadith collections
• 17th-century Persian books
• Safavid literature
• Islamic studies book stubs