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	~~{{Hadith}}~~		'''{{Transliteration\|ar\|Bihar al-Anwar}}''' ({{langx\|ar\|بِحَار ٱلْأَنْوَار\|translit=Biḥār al-Anwār\|lit=Seas of Lights}}) is a comprehensive collection of [[hadith]] (''pl.'' ahadith) compiled by [[Shia Islam\|Shia]] scholar [[Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi]]. It is the secondary Shi'ite hadith verification source after [[the Four Books]].
	'''{{Transliteration\|ar\|Bihar al-Anwar}}''' ({{langx\|ar\|بِحَار ٱلْأَنْوَار\|translit=Biḥār al-Anwār\|lit=Seas of Lights}}) is a comprehensive collection of [[hadith]] (''pl.'' ahadith) compiled by [[Shia]] scholar [[Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi]] ~~({{Died in\|1699 A.D.}})~~. It is the secondary Shi'ite hadith verification source after [[the Four Books]].

	==Overview==		==Overview==
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	* ''Banādir al-Biḥār'' – by Fayḍ al-Islām		* ''Banādir al-Biḥār'' – by Fayḍ al-Islām
	* ''Muntakhab Biḥār al-Anwār'' – by Muḥammad Hādī ibn Murtaḍā al-Kāshānī		* ''Muntakhab Biḥār al-Anwār'' – by Muḥammad Hādī ibn Murtaḍā al-Kāshānī

	~~==See also==~~
	*[[Al-Hurr al-Aamili]]
	*[[Al-Sharif al-Radi]]
	*[[Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid]]
	*[[Amina Bint al-Majlisi]]
	*[[Du'a al-Kumayl]]
	*[[ibn Babawayh]]
	*[[List of Shi'a books]]
	*[[Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni]]
	*[[Nahj al-Balagha]]
	*[[Safavid conversion of Iran to Shia Islam]]
	*[[Sharif al-Murtaza]]
	*[[Shaykh Tusi]]
	*[[Umdat al-Talib fi Ansabi Ale Abi Talib]]

	==References==		==References==
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	*[https://www.hubeali.com/online-books/online-english-books/bihar-al-anwaar/ Bihar al-Anwar Volumes 1 – 74 English Translation], compiled by Allamah Majlesi, translated by Hub-e-Ali organization, publicly available for free.		*[https://www.hubeali.com/online-books/online-english-books/bihar-al-anwaar/ Bihar al-Anwar Volumes 1 – 74 English Translation], compiled by Allamah Majlesi, translated by Hub-e-Ali organization, publicly available for free.
	* [https://archive.org/details/62899227BiharAlAnwarVol515253ThePromisedMahdiEnglishTranslationPart1/page/n19/mode/2up Bihar Al-Anwar, Kitab al-Ghaybah (Vols. 51, 52 & 53) – The Promised Mahdi, English Translation Part 1] and [https://archive.org/details/BiharAlAnwarVol515253ThePromisedMahdiEnglishTranslationPart2/mode/2up Part 2], compiled by Allamah Majlesi, translated by Athar Husayn S.H. Rizvi, publicly available for free.		* [https://archive.org/details/62899227BiharAlAnwarVol515253ThePromisedMahdiEnglishTranslationPart1/page/n19/mode/2up Bihar Al-Anwar, Kitab al-Ghaybah (Vols. 51, 52 & 53) – The Promised Mahdi, English Translation Part 1] and [https://archive.org/details/BiharAlAnwarVol515253ThePromisedMahdiEnglishTranslationPart2/mode/2up Part 2], compiled by Allamah Majlesi, translated by Athar Husayn S.H. Rizvi, publicly available for free.
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	~~{{Authority control}}~~

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	'''{{Transliteration\|ar\|Bihar al-Anwar}}''' ({{langx\|ar\|بِحَار ٱلْأَنْوَار\|translit=Biḥār al-Anwār\|lit=Seas of Lights}}) is a comprehensive collection of [[hadith]] (''pl.'' ahadith) compiled by [[~~Shia Islam\|~~Shia]] scholar [[Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi]]. It is the secondary Shi'ite hadith verification source after [[the Four Books]].		{{Hadith}}
			'''{{Transliteration\|ar\|Bihar al-Anwar}}''' ({{langx\|ar\|بِحَار ٱلْأَنْوَار\|translit=Biḥār al-Anwār\|lit=Seas of Lights}}) is a comprehensive collection of [[hadith]] (''pl.'' ahadith) compiled by [[Shia]] scholar [[Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi]] ({{Died in\|1699 A.D.}}). It is the secondary Shi'ite hadith verification source after [[the Four Books]].

	==Overview==		==Overview==
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	* ''Banādir al-Biḥār'' – by Fayḍ al-Islām		* ''Banādir al-Biḥār'' – by Fayḍ al-Islām
	* ''Muntakhab Biḥār al-Anwār'' – by Muḥammad Hādī ibn Murtaḍā al-Kāshānī		* ''Muntakhab Biḥār al-Anwār'' – by Muḥammad Hādī ibn Murtaḍā al-Kāshānī

			==See also==
			*[[Al-Hurr al-Aamili]]
			*[[Al-Sharif al-Radi]]
			*[[Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid]]
			*[[Amina Bint al-Majlisi]]
			*[[Du'a al-Kumayl]]
			*[[ibn Babawayh]]
			*[[List of Shi'a books]]
			*[[Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni]]
			*[[Nahj al-Balagha]]
			*[[Safavid conversion of Iran to Shia Islam]]
			*[[Sharif al-Murtaza]]
			*[[Shaykh Tusi]]
			*[[Umdat al-Talib fi Ansabi Ale Abi Talib]]

	==References==		==References==
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	*[https://www.hubeali.com/online-books/online-english-books/bihar-al-anwaar/ Bihar al-Anwar Volumes 1 – 74 English Translation], compiled by Allamah Majlesi, translated by Hub-e-Ali organization, publicly available for free.		*[https://www.hubeali.com/online-books/online-english-books/bihar-al-anwaar/ Bihar al-Anwar Volumes 1 – 74 English Translation], compiled by Allamah Majlesi, translated by Hub-e-Ali organization, publicly available for free.
	* [https://archive.org/details/62899227BiharAlAnwarVol515253ThePromisedMahdiEnglishTranslationPart1/page/n19/mode/2up Bihar Al-Anwar, Kitab al-Ghaybah (Vols. 51, 52 & 53) – The Promised Mahdi, English Translation Part 1] and [https://archive.org/details/BiharAlAnwarVol515253ThePromisedMahdiEnglishTranslationPart2/mode/2up Part 2], compiled by Allamah Majlesi, translated by Athar Husayn S.H. Rizvi, publicly available for free.		* [https://archive.org/details/62899227BiharAlAnwarVol515253ThePromisedMahdiEnglishTranslationPart1/page/n19/mode/2up Bihar Al-Anwar, Kitab al-Ghaybah (Vols. 51, 52 & 53) – The Promised Mahdi, English Translation Part 1] and [https://archive.org/details/BiharAlAnwarVol515253ThePromisedMahdiEnglishTranslationPart2/mode/2up Part 2], compiled by Allamah Majlesi, translated by Athar Husayn S.H. Rizvi, publicly available for free.
			{{Shia hadith literature\|state=uncollapsed}}
			{{Authority control}}

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{{Short description|Shia hadith collection by Muhammad Baqir Majlisi}}
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'''{{Transliteration|ar|Bihar al-Anwar}}''' ({{langx|ar|بِحَار ٱلْأَنْوَار|translit=Biḥār al-Anwār|lit=Seas of Lights}}) is a comprehensive collection of [[hadith]] (''pl.'' ahadith) compiled by [[Shia Islam|Shia]] scholar [[Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi]]. It is the secondary Shi'ite hadith verification source after [[the Four Books]].

==Overview==
''Bihar al-Anwar'' is the most comprehensive hadith collections, documenting over 100,000 items of [[Twelver Shi'ism|Twelver Shia]] hadith along with Majlisi's commentary on these narrations.<ref name="laws" /><ref name="iranicaonline" /> He used about 400 sources written by such Sunni and Shia scholars as [[Ibn Babawayh|Shaykh al-Saduq]], [[Shaykh Tusi]], [[Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid]], [[Sharif al-Murtaza]], [[Muhammad Jamaluddin al-Makki al-Amili]], [[Sayyed Ibn Tawus]], [[Allamah Al-Hilli|Al-Hilli]], [[Zayn al-Din al-Juba'i al'Amili]].<ref name="al-islam">{{cite web |last1=Muntazir Qa'im |first1=Mahdi |title=Sources |date=18 November 2013 |url=https://www.al-islam.org/jesus-though-shiite-narrations-mahdi-muntazir-qaim/sources}}</ref>

The full title of the book is:<blockquote>''Biḥār al-ʾAnwār al-Jāmiʿah li-Durar ʾAkhbār al-ʾAʾimmah al-Aṭhār''

({{langx|ar|بِحَار ٱلْأَنْوَار ٱلْجَامِعَة لِدُرَر أَخْبَار ٱلَأَئِمَّة ٱلْأَطْهَار}})

(lit. ''Oceans of Lights: The Compendium for Pearls of Traditions of the Pure Imams'')</blockquote>This lengthy title indicates Majlisi collected anything he had access to in the book.<ref name="iranicaonline">{{cite web |last1=Kohlberg |first1=Etan |title=BEḤĀR AL-ANWĀR |url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/behar-al-anwar}}</ref><ref name="laws">{{cite web |last1=Ansari |first1=Nasiruddin |title=Bihar al-anwar (Oceans of Lights) is |url=http://www.islamic-laws.com/bihar.htm}}</ref> His primary goal was to preserve the knowledge for future generations and prevent forgery.<ref name="The Literature of Islam" /> Majlisi has acknowledged the forgery issue in the preface of ''Bihar al-Anwar'', emphasizing that the traditions collected were not included without extensive scrutiny, although a consequence of his approach was that he has gathered both "pearls" and "pebbles".

The compilation of ''Bihar al-Anwar'' took 36 years, during which Majlisi received aid from other scholars and his students.

==Author==
[[Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi]] was born in 1617 in [[Isfahan]], the capital city of the [[Persian Empire]]. A student of [[Mulla Sadra]], he was described in the journal ''Orient'' as "an unprecedentedly influential author in the world of Imami Shi'ism".<ref name="jstage" /> On 1687, he was appointed as [[Sheikh ul-Islam]] of Isfahan by the emperor [[Sultan Husayn]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Debating Muslims: Cultural Dialogues in Postmodernity and Tradition |year=1990 |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press; 1 edition (February 17, 2002) |isbn=978-0299124342 |url=https://archive.org/details/debatingmuslimsc0000fisc|url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/debatingmuslimsc0000fisc/page/471 471] |quote=Mu 'jam al-mufahras li-alfaz ahadith Bihar al-anwar. }}</ref> He developed the Twelver doctrine by investigating Shia and Sunni hadith. He wrote over 100 books in [[Arabic]] and [[Persian language|Persian]].<ref name="jstage">{{cite web |last1=MATSUNAGA |first1=Yasuyuki |title=EXAMINING THE VIEWS OF 'ALLAMAH MAJLISI ON LEGITIMATE POLITICAL AUTHORITY (SULTANAT-I MASHRU'AH) AND THE GUARDIANSHIP OF THE JURIST (WILAYAT-I FAQIH) |url=https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/orient1960/35/0/35_0_12/_pdf}}</ref><ref name="The Literature of Islam">{{cite book |last1=Youngman Skreslet, Skreslet |first1=Paula, Rebecca |title=The Literature of Islam: A Guide to the Primary Sources in English Translation |year=2006 |publisher=Scarecrow Press (September 20, 2006) |isbn=978-0810854086 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E2wqYq2299YC&q=Oceans+of+Light++name+bihar+al+anwar&pg=PA47}}</ref>

==Editions==
* Majlisī, Muḥammad Bāqir al-, ''Biḥār al-nwār al-Jāmiʿahli-Durar Akhbār al-Aʾimmat al-Aṭhār'' [The Oceans of Lights: A Compendium of the Pearls of the Narrations of the Pure Imāms], 110 vols (Beirut: Muʾassasat al-Wafāʾ, 1983).

==Commentaries==
* ''Mashraʿa Biḥār al-Anwār'' – by Muḥammad [[Asif Mohseni]]
* ''Durrar al-Biḥār'' – by al-Mawlā Nūr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Murtaḍā
* ''Commentary on Biḥār al-Anwār'' – by ʿAbd al-Aʿlā al-Mūsawī al-Sabzawārī
* ''Gharīb al-Ḥadīth fī Biḥār al-Anwār'' (“Strange Expressions in Biḥār al-Anwār”) – by Ḥusayn al-Ḥusaynī al-Bīrjandī
* ''Anwār al-Biḥār'' – by Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Hādī al-Nāʾīnī
* ''Manāhil al-Abrār fī Talkhīṣ Biḥār al-Anwār'' – by Ḥusayn Dargāhī
* ''Talkhīṣ al-Biḥār'' – by al-Mīrzā Muḥammad Ṣādiq al-Shīrāzī
* ''Ḥadīqat al-Azhār fī Talkhīṣ al-Biḥār'' – by al-Mīrzā Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Nabī al-Nīshābūrī
* ''Talkhīṣ al-Anwār'' – by al-Mawlā Muḥammad Taqī, known as Āqā Najafī Iṣfahānī
* ''Mashrūʿ Biḥār al-Anwār'' (“Biḥār al-Anwār Project”) – by Muḥammad Āṣif Muḥsinī
* ''Talkhīṣ al-Biḥār'' – by al-Mīrzā Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥusayn ibn Ghafār al-Dunbulī al-Khūʾī
* ''Durrar al-Biḥār'' – by al-Mawlā Muḥammad Taqī ibn Muḥammad al-Khūʾī
* ''Banādir al-Biḥār'' – by Fayḍ al-Islām
* ''Muntakhab Biḥār al-Anwār'' – by Muḥammad Hādī ibn Murtaḍā al-Kāshānī

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.hubeali.com/online-books/online-english-books/bihar-al-anwaar/ Bihar al-Anwar Volumes 1 – 74 English Translation], compiled by Allamah Majlesi, translated by Hub-e-Ali organization, publicly available for free.
* [https://archive.org/details/62899227BiharAlAnwarVol515253ThePromisedMahdiEnglishTranslationPart1/page/n19/mode/2up Bihar Al-Anwar, Kitab al-Ghaybah (Vols. 51, 52 & 53) – The Promised Mahdi, English Translation Part 1] and [https://archive.org/details/BiharAlAnwarVol515253ThePromisedMahdiEnglishTranslationPart2/mode/2up Part 2], compiled by Allamah Majlesi, translated by Athar Husayn S.H. Rizvi, publicly available for free.
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[[Category:17th-century Arabic-language books]]