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Madinat al-‘Ilm seems to have been an early #ShiiHadith encyclopaedia compiled by Ibn Babawayh al-Shaykh al-Saduq (d. 991) but which has not been extant since the later 16thC 1/
Recently a recovered text based on citations has been published mktba.net/library.php?id… 2/
The early #Shii bibliographies all mention the text and that it was voluminous and larger than Man la yahduruhu l-Faqih - 10 to 4 in ratio 3/
Shaykh Husayn b. ‘Abd al-Samad al-‘Amili (d. 1577) father of the famous Baha’ al-Din al-‘Amili on his Wusul al-akhyar described it as 5th of the #Shii canon on which one relied for the precepts of the faith 4/
Up to the 16th C it was widely cited - perhaps even more than al-Kafi of Kulayni; however, by the 17thC it seems to have disappeared 5/
‘Abdullah Afandi (d. 1717) student of Baqir Majlisi and part of the team that worked on #BiharalAnwar reported that research teams were sent to #Yemen and elsewhere to find a copy 6/
But those #manuscript expeditions failed to find a single copy 7/
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