Kitab al-Kafi
| Kitāb al-Kāfī | |
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| Arabic: ٱلْكَافِي | |
Cover of the first volume of a modern edition of Al-Kafi | |
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| Religion | Islam (Twelver Shī‘ah) |
| Author | Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Kulaynī |
| Language | Arabic |
| Chapters | 35 (in 3 sections) |
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Al-Kafi (Arabic: ٱلْكَافِي, al-Kāfī, Translated from Arabic means 'The Sufficient') is a hadith collection of the Twelver Shī‘ah tradition, compiled in the first half of the 10th century CE (early 4th century AH) by Muḥammad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Kulaynī (c. 868–941). It is one of the Four Books (Kutub al Arba'a) in Twelver Shi'i Islam.
It is divided into three sections: Uṣūl al-Kāfī, dealing with epistemology, theology, history, ethics, supplication, and the Qurʾān; Furūʿ al-Kāfī, which is concerned with practical and legal issues; and Rawdat (or Rawḍat al-Kāfī), which includes miscellaneous traditions, many of which are lengthy letters and speeches transmitted from the imams. In total, al-Kāfī comprises 16,199 narrations. It reportedly took him twenty years to finish the book.