Kamil al-Ziyarat () is a Hadith collection of 843 traditions, by the famous Twelver Shia Hadith scholar Abu al-Qasim Ja'far b. Muhammad b. Ja'far b. Musa b. Qulawayh a-Qummi al-Bahdadi, commonly known as Ibn Qulawayh.
Author
Abul-Gasem Jafar b. Mohammad b. Jafar b. Musab Qulawayh Qumi Bagdadi, known as Ibn Qulawayh was a dominant Shia traditionist and jurist. shaykh Al-Kulayni was his teacher and Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid was one of his students. Ibn Qulawayh studied at Qum and Egypt. He authored many books that the most prominent is kamil al-ziyarat.
Authenticity Ibn Qulawayh's father had relationship with Sad ibn Abdallah al-Qummi al-Ashari, a great Qummi traditionist. The reference of the narration attributed to al-Kulayni and Ali ibn Babawayh Qummi and al-Numani was Sad ibn Abdallah. In kamil al-ziyarat, 61 per cent of traditions had been collected from Qummis like his father in Qum and 13 per cent of them had been narrated from prominent Kufan, Muhammad b. Jafar, al-Bazzaz. This is contingent that in order to collecting traditions Ibn Qulawayh travelled to Baghdad and Egypt. kamil al-ziyarat had been used for developing of some reliable sources like al-Mazar by Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid, Tahdhib al-Ahkam and al-Istibsar by Shaykh Tusi, Bihar al-Anwar, Mustadrak al-Wasa'el and Wasa'el ash-Shi'a.
Context Kamil al-Ziyarat is known as other titles such as al-Ziyarat, Kamal al-Ziyarat but the author had considered Kamil al-Ziyarat for this book. It contains 843 traditions that set up in 801 chapters.
The Shia nature of the Kamil al-Ziyarat became apparent in some specific chapters of the book. There is 52 traditions at 8-15 chapters associated to Ziyarat of Imam Ali’s grave. Also 69 per cent of tradition are related to visiting of Husayn ibn Ali’s grave.
This book contains following subjects:
The charity of visiting ( Ziyārah ) the Muhammad prophet’s grave The charity and manner of the visiting of the grave of Ali ibn Abi Talib The charity and manner of the visiting of the grave of Hasan ibn Ali The charity and manner of the visiting of the grave of Husayn ibn Ali, the charity of Mourning for him The manner of the visiting of the graves of Musa al-Kazim and Muhammad al-Jawad The manner of the visiting of graves of the others The Fourteen Infallibles The manner of the visiting of graves of the believers The manner of the visiting of graves of the Imamzadeh (an immediate descendant of a Shia Imam )
Manuscripts The following version are available: At the library of Islamic Consultative Assembly, written by Mohammad Shafi Rahmani, in 1083 AH At the Central Library of Astan Quds Razavi, written by Abu al-Qasim Najafi
See also
List of Shi'a books The Four Books Al-Kafi Man la yahduruhu al-Faqih*
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