Mirza Husain Noori Tabarsi

Mirza Husain Noori Tabarsi (, ) (3 January 1839 – 29 September 1902) popularly known as Muhaddis Noori or Al-Mohaddith Al-Noori, was a Shi'a Islamic Scholar and Shi'a Renaissance.

He came from the town of Noor, Northern Iran in province Tabarestan and was a descendant of the Paduspanids, Spahbed of East dynasty. Mirza Husain Nouri died at the age of 66 years in Najaf and was laid to rest on the right side of the entrance to the Mausoleum of Imam Ali.

Life

Noori was born on 18 Shawwal 1254 AH (3 January 1839) at the northern Iranian city of Noor in Mazandaran. Following the completion of his preliminary studies, he strove to scrutinize the vast hadith literature and became an authority in this regard.

Education

Noori studied in Iraq under Morteza Ansari and Mirza Mohammed Hassan Husseini Shirazi.

Noori's masters were:

• Clergyman Mola Fatholah Soltan Abadi
• Molla Shekh Ali Khalili, the jurisprudent
• Mo’ez aldin Seyed Mehdi Ghazvini
• Mirza Mohammad Hashem Khansari
• Ayatollah Haj Molla Kani

Some of his works

Noori was an authority on Islamic sciences, including hadith, exegesis of the Holy Qur'an, theology, and biography of ulema. He had numerous students, including Shaikh Abbas Qomi, the author of the famous prayer and supplication manual "Mafatih al-Jinaan" (Keys of Paradise). He wrote numerous works in both Persian and Arabic, many of them were translated to other languages including English and Urdu. His works include:

• Mustadrak al-Wasāʼil wa-mustanbaá¹­ al-masāʼil. One of the Shia Hadith-collection books comprising approximately 18 volumes.
• Mustadrak Al-Vasayel and Mustanbetu Al-Ahkam (1320 AH). This book included many hadiths which dropped from the Vasayel Al-shia.
• Mustanbetu Al-Ahkam by Mirza Hossein Noori
• An-Najm Al-Thāqib fÄ« Aḥwāl Al-Imām Al-Ḥujja Al-Ghāʼeb (translated to English as the Shooting star). A comprehensive book regarding the twelfth Imam of Twelver Shias, written originally in Persian, and was translated lately to English, Arabic and Urdu.
• Kashf Al-Astār Ê¿An Wajh Al-Ghāʼeb Ê¿An Al-Abṣār. A refutation to Sunnis regarding the twelfth Imam too, written in Arabic.
• Jannat Al-Maʼwā fÄ«man Fāz Biliqāʼ Al-Ḥujja fÄ« Al-Ghayba Al-Kubrā. A collection of tales of those who claim to have met the twelfth Imam during the Major Occultation period, and it was written in Arabic.
• Nafas Ar-Raḥmān fÄ« Faḍāʼil Salmān. A biography of Salman the Persian.
• Al-Fayḍ Al-QudsÄ« fÄ« tarjamat al-Ê¿Allāmah al-MajlisÄ«. A comprehensive biography of the 17th century renowned cleric Muhammad Baqir Majlisi, and it was printed with Biḥār al-Anwār, and lately printed again separately.
• Faá¹£l al-khiṭāb fÄ« ithbāt taḥrÄ«f kitāb Rabb al-arbāb. (ShÄ«Ê»ah > ShÄ«Ê»ah Doctrines, Published 1881, al-NÅ«rÄ« al-ṬabarsÄ«, HathiTrust Digital Library.) Title translated as: "The Final Verdict Proving the Corruption of the Book of the Lord of the Lord's". A book proving the Qur'an is corrupted according to Shi'ah thought.
• Min Behar Al Anwar Maa Takmila (Digital Library of India Item 2015.324119).
• Dār As-Salām fÄ«mā YataÊ¿allaq Bi Ar-Ruʼyā wal Manām. A treatise on dreams interpretation.
• Jannat al-Maʼwá : fÄ« dhikr man fāza bi-liqāʼ al-ḥujjah, 3 editions published in 1992 in Arabic
• The shooting star : English translation of An-Najmus saaqib fee ahwaal-e-Imaamul ghaaeb : an account of the concealment of Imam Mahdi (a.s.), the twelfth Imam of the twelver Shia Muslims (1 edition published in 2009 in English)
• Najm al-s̲āqib : mushtamil bar, aḥvāl-i Imām-i Ghāʼib (4 editions published between 1989 and 1996 in Persian)
• al-á¹¢aḥīfah al-Ê»AlawÄ«yah al-mubārakah al-thānÄ«yah : min adʻīyat al-Imām Ê»AlÄ« ibn AbÄ« Ṭālib
• Kashf al-astār Ê»an wajh al-ghāʼib Ê»an al-abṣār (5 editions published between 1992 and 2011 in Arabic and Persian)
• Kitāb kalimah á¹­ayyibah (in Persian)
• Risālah fÄ« ādāb al-mujāwarah : mujāwarat mashāhid al-Aʼimmah
• al-Najm al-thāqib fÄ« aḥwāl al-Imām al-Ḥujjah al-Ghāʼib
• Supplement to Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ḥurr al-ʻĀmilÄ«'s Wasāʼil al-ShÄ«Ê»ah ilá taḥṣīl masāʼil al-sharÄ«Ê»ah
• Fayz̤-i qudsÄ« : zindagÄ«nāmah-i Ê»Allāmh Muḥammad Bāqir MajlisÄ« (2 editions published in 1995 in Persian)
• Taḥiyat al-zāʼir wa-bulqhat al-mujāwir (2 editions published in 1909 in Persian)
• Kalimah á¹­ayyibah (3 editions published between 1885 and 1924 in Persian)

Death

Noori died in Najaf on 27 Jumada al-Thani 1320 AH (29 September 1902), at the age of 66. He was buried on the right side of the entrance to the Mausoleum of Imam Ali.

Allameh Mohaddes Nouri University

Allameh Mohaddes Nouri University (AMNU; ), formerly known as the Institute of Higher Education, is a non-governmental, non-profit university founded in 1996 in the town of Noor, Iran. The university was established under an official license from Iran's Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (MSRT) and aims to advance knowledge, science, and technology, as well as to train skilled and creative students at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The institution is named after Noori.

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