''Reality of Certainty'' ( ar-at, حقاليقين, Haqq al-Yaqīn) is a
Shiite
Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his successor (''khalīfa'') and the Imam (spiritual and political leader) after him, most ...
collection of
hadith
Ḥadīth ( or ; ar, حديث, , , , , , , literally "talk" or "discourse") or Athar ( ar, أثر, , literally "remnant"/"effect") refers to what the majority of Muslims believe to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approval ...
s (Islamic narrations) authored by
Muhammad Baqir Majlisi
Mohammad Baqer Majlesi (b. 1037/1628-29 – d. 1110/1699) ( fa, علامه مجلسی ''Allameh Majlesi''; also Romanized as: Majlessi, Majlisi, Madjlessi), known as Allamah Majlesi or Majlesi Al-Thani (Majlesi the Second), was a renowned and ve ...
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
''Al-Kafi'' ( ar, ٱلْكَافِي, ', literally "''The Sufficient''") is a Twelver Shia hadith collection compiled by Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni. It is divided into three sections: ''Uṣūl al-Kāfī'', dealing with epistemology, theolo ...
'' 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 (14th century) or Safavid era (16th-17th centuries).
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 (including the
Sunni collections of
Bukhari and
Muslim) 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.
Content
Contents of book include:
* Some hadiths related to the
Shi'a view of Umar
Umar ibn al-Khattab was one of the earliest figures in the history of Islam. While Sunnis regard Umar ibn al-Khattab in high esteem and respect his place as one of the " Four Righteously Guided Caliphs", the Shia do not view him as a legitim