Rijal Al Kashi Report 176 -2021- [updated] 99%

Rijal al-Kashi, or Ikhtiyar ma’rifat al-rijal, is a crucial 10th-century Twelver Shi'ite text abridged by Shaykh Tusi that provides critical biographical evaluations of hadith narrators. It is distinguished by documenting raw narrations concerning the companions of the Imams, including high praise for key figures such as Zurarah, Muhammad ibn Muslim, Burayd ibn Mu'awiyah al-'Ijli, and Abu Basir Layth al-Muradi. For more details, visit Wikipedia.

• The Four Books (especially al-Kafi).
• Al-Najashi’s Fihrist.
• Al-Tusi’s al-Fihrist and Rijal al-Tusi.
• Ibn al-Ghada’iri’s Rijal (a highly critical contemporary work).

Weakness in Chain: Some analysts argue that by strict Rijali standards, the specific chain for Report 176 and its immediate successors in the text contain gaps or unreliable narrators. Rijal Al Kashi Report 176 -2021-

Each "report" (khabar) in al-Kashi’s work is not merely a biographical entry but often contains chains of narration (isnad) and lengthy theological discussions. Report 176 varies in numbering across manuscripts. In the standard early 20th-century editions (such as the one by al-Mustafawi), the numbering differs from the newer 2021 critical edition based on the Mashhad manuscript. Rijal al-Kashi, or Ikhtiyar ma’rifat al-rijal , is