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Shia hadith collection by Muhammad Baqir Majlisi

Bihar al Anwar (بِحَار ٱلْأَنْوَار) is a comprehensive collection of hadith compiled by Shia scholar Muhammad Baqir Majlisi It is a hadith collection as the secondary source used beside the Four Books.

The full name of the book, Biḥār al ʾAnwār al Jāmiʿah li Durar ʾAkhbār al ʾAʾimmah al Aṭhār (بِحَار ٱلْأَنْوَار ٱلْجَامِعَة لِدُرَر أَخْبَار ٱلَأَئِمَّة ٱلْأَطْهَار) (lit. Seas of Lights: The Collection for Pearls of Traditions of the Pure Imams) illustrates that Majlisi did not collect anything he had access to in the book.

Mohammad Baqer Majlesi was born in 1617 in Isfahan. He was a student of Mulla Sadra. He has been described as the most powerful and influential Shia Ulems. On 1687, he was appointed as Sheikh ul Islam by Sultan Husayn in Isfahan, the capital city of the Persian Empire. He developed Twelver doctrine by investigating Shia and Sunni hadith. Over 100 books in Arabic and Persian were authored by him.

Majlisi compiled it to gather all the ahadith he could access. His primary goal was to preserve the available knowledge for future generations. The author wrote this book in 25 volumes, but, a new version is published in 110 volumes by some changes and contains more than 100,000 ahadith from Muslim sources.

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).