Al - Kafi in the Light of Investigations

The importance and crdit of the book "Al-Kafi" compiled by SeghatOl-Islam Mohammad bin yaghoub Al - Kolaini, has encouraged many ofthe Shia scholarsto prepare and publish investigations and interpretations about it. In this essay 6 of those works are introduces and criticized.Three of these give information about Al-Kafi an its respated author, Four of them are in Arabic language, and 2 others in Persian language. The 2nd book discusses four impootant Subjects of al- Kafi, i,e, Imam Mahdi (p.b.u.h.), dissimultion, innovation or change in creation, and Quran. The book four is a bibliography of the narrators of the traditions collected inal- Kafi.