Pearls and Corals (lu’lu Wa Marjaan) Treatise On the Condition of Sincerity Required By Religious Speakers
Notes
1 al-Maḥāsin of al-Barqi, Volume 1, Chapter 11, Page 220, #127
2 'Ashura - Misrepresentations and Distortions, translated by Ali Quli Qara'i - published in Volume 13, Issue # 3 of the al-Tawhid Islamic Journal
3 Ibid
4 Kāmil al-Ziyarāt, Page 325
5 'Uyūn al-Akhbār, Volume 1, Page 294
6 Munshid is someone who composes and recites poetry
7 Kāmil al-Ziyarāt, Page 105; Thawāb al-'Amāl Page 84; al-Amāli of Sheikh Ṣaduq, Majlis 29, Page 141
8 Makfūf is someone who is blind
9 Kāmil al-Ziyarāt, Page 106
10 I was not able to locate the exact Arabic of this narration in Kāmil al-Ziyarāt, however it is similar to the previous narration where the Imam (as) is speaking to Abu Harūn.
11 Thawāb al-'Amāl Page 84
12 Kāmil al-Ziyarāt, Page 106, Thawāb al-'Amāl Page 84
13 Allamah Majlisi records it in Biḥār al-Anwār, Volume 44, Page 288
14 Rijāl al-Kashi, Hadith #508
15 In the original Farsi, the author uses the term rawḍah-khawān, and has explained how this term was coined and who it implies. From here onwards, we will simply be using the word "reciter" and its variations to refer to this group of individuals.
16 Surah al-Mā'ida, verse 2: and help one another in goodness and piety
17 As mentioned in the foreword, this translation only covers the first Chapter which deals with sincerity.
18 Surah al-Fātiḥa, verse 5
19 Usūl al-Kāfi, Volume 1, The Book of Excellence of Knowledge, Chapter 14, Hadith #2
20 Mustaṭrafāt al-Sarā'ir, Page 636
21 'Awāli al-La'āli by Ibn Abi Jamhūr al-Ihsā'ī, Volume 4, #66
22 Book of Sulaym bin Qays, Page 718
23 Usūl al-Kāfi, Volume 2, The Book of Belief and Disbelief, Chapter 135, Hadith #1
24 al-Amāli, 23rd Assembly, Page 182, #5
25 Rijāl al-Kashi, Page 124, #196
26 Tuḥaf al-'Uqūl, Advise of Mufaḍḍal bin 'Umar for the Shi'i Community, Page 514
27 Usūl al-Kāfi, VOLUME7, pg 396, #571; Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām, VOLUME6, pg 220
28 Man lā yahḍuruhu al-Faqīh, VOLUME3, pg 178
29 Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām, VOLUME6, pg 376
30 Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām, V2, pg 283; Man lā yahḍuruhu al-Faqīh, VOLUME1, pg 283
31 Abu 'Ali Muḥammad bin Ash'ath al-Kufi (d. 313 Hijri/925-926 CE)
32 al-Ja'fariyāt, pg 180
33 al-Ja'fariyāt, pg 245
34 Famously known as Ibn al-Rāzi, 4th century Hijri/10th century scholar
35 Jami' al-Ahādith, in which narrations from al-Ghāyat are recorded, pg 219; Man lā yahḍuruhu al-Faqīh, VOLUME4, pg 352
36 I'qāb al-A'māl, pg 283
37 Nahj al-Balāgha, Sayings & Maxims, #147; al-Amāli of Sheikh Mufīd, Majlis #29, pg 249
38 Sheikh Muntakhab al-Dīn records this story in his book Arba'īn with a slight difference where it says that the daughter made herself vomit after eating from the sweet
39 Tafsīr Abū al- Futūḥ, VOLUME10, pg 164
40 Tafsīr al-'Askari, pg 14
41 Manāqib Aal Abi Tālib, Volume 2, Page 97
42 Sharḥ Lum'ah, Volume 3, Page 286
43 Miṣbāḥ al-Mujtahid, Page 66; Kanz al-Fawā'id, Volume 1, Page 385
44 The place from where a scholar usually leads the congregational prayers
45 Surah al-Baqarah, verse 44
46 Rawḍ al-Jinān wa Rūḥ al-Janān fi Tafsīr al-Qur' ān by Shaykh Abū l-Futūḥ al-Rāzī, Page 253
47 Ibid
48 Ibid
49 Ibid
50 al-Amāli of Sheikh Sadūq, Majlis 57, Page 358; al-Maḥāsin of Barqi, Volume 1, Page 252
51 Tafsīr Ayyāshi, Volume 1, Page 43
52 Surah al-Shu'arā, Verse 94
53 Surah al-Zumar, Verse 56
54 'Uyūn al-Akhbār, Sheikh Sadūq - Volume 2, Page 234, Chapter 58, Hadith #4
55 The act of making oneself cry or even pretending to cry over the tragedy of Imam Ḥusayn (as)
56 Ghurar al-Ḥikam, Page 286; Nahj al-Balagha, Saying #207
57 Ghurar al-Ḥikam, Page 286
58 Mustadrak al-Wasāil, Volume 10, Page 318
59 al-Amāli by Sheikh Tūsi, Page 529; Makārim al-Akhlāq, Page 462
60 Kāmil al-Ziyarāt, Page 175
61 al-Ikhtisās, Page 251 - book attributed to Sheikh Mufīd. This hadith has also been narrated in Sunni books on the authority of Jarīr bin 'Abdullah al-Bajli from the Prophet (pbuh) in Sharḥ Riyaḍ al- Ṣaliḥīn, Page [^199]:
62 This is an adaption from Surah al-Ḥajj, Verse 11
63 Manāqib Aal Abi Tālib, Volume 4, Page 318
64 Manāqib Aal Abi Tālib, Volume 4, Pg 66
65 al-Amāli of Sheikh Tūsi, Page 281
66 See al-Kharāij wa al-Jarāih, Volume 1, Page 267, #10
67 Rijāl al-Kashi, Page 132
68 A large amount of money, generally 10,000 dirhams
69 Ghurar wa Durar (al-Amāli of Sayyid Murtaḍa), Volume 1, Page 484
70 A long outer garment, open in front with wide sleeves
71 These reports can all be read in Volume 2 of 'Uyūn al-Akhbār