A Reflection on Zu Al-Shahāb and its Manuscipts

Shahāb Al-Akhbār, by Qāzi Qazāie, is one of the public hadith texts which have always been taken into consideration by Shiite and Sunni muhaddith (a specialist who profoundly knows and narrates hadith) and scholars. This book includes around one thousand ethic and educative hadiths narrated by Islam prophet; besides it contains explanations, annotations, appendix, and many summaries. In the present study, the author, first of all, is going to provide a short biography of Qāzi Qazāie and his works. Then he briefly introduces Shahāb Al-Akhbār. Out of all the explanations written on this book, the author intends to give a report of Zia' Al-Shahāb, which is one of the few Shiite explanations. Therefore, the author, after providing a concise biography of Fazlullah Ravandi, the authorof Zu' Al-Shahāb, introduces seven copies of the book.