Analytical-critical Structuralogy of the Book of "Montakhab Al-Athar Fi Al-Imam Al-Thani Ashar(a.s)"

The book of "Montakhab al-Athar fi al-Imam al-Thani Ashar(a.s)"3 written by Hazrat Ayatollah Lotfollah Safi Golpayegani, one of the greatest Shia legal authorities, is one of the contemporary narrative books on the subject of hadiths related to Imam Mahdi (a.s), and the honorable author has collected the narrations with arduous investigation in the books of the two parties (Sunni and Shia) and innovatively structured it. In several sections, he has endeavored to explain and clear the doubts and challenges of the hadiths of Mahdism by appendices and numerous scholarly footnotes. The present paper, which is library-based, and in analyzing the data and views and documents, is following the descriptive-analytic-critical method, has been written with the aim of recognizing the structure of the book of "Montakhab al-Athar fi al-Imam al-Thani Ashar(a.s)" on four major axes: 1. Description and mention of features; 2. Virtues and privileges; 3. Shortcomings, criticisms, and evaluations; 4. Suggestions; and has structurally criticized and analyzed each of the ten substructures of the book and has come to this final conclusion that the present book, despite its undeniable structural advantages and innovations has some deficiencies and needs to be revised based on the given suggestions.