Jurisprudential Texts with Regard to Issuing Fatwas and Teaching
– Al-Nihāyah: written by Muhammad b. Ḥasan Ṭūsī, known as Sheikh Ṭūsī. This book was the pivot of teaching, interpretations, and commentaries until the time of Muḥaqqiq Ḥillī (for about three centuries).
– Sharāyi‘ al-Islām fī Masā’il al-Ḥalāl wa al-Ḥarām: written by Muḥaqqiq Ḥillī (602-676). An interesting and the best Shi’a jurisprudential textbook that is translated in many languages. The author demonstrates his proficiency at powerful lucid expression, and dividing issues in different chapters. Al-Mukhtaṣar al-Nāfi‘, is another book of Sheikh Ṭūsī, which is an abridgement of Sharāyi‘ al-Islām. Jurists have paid attention to this book and have written some interpretations on it.
– Tabṣirah al-Muta‘allimīn: written by Ḥasan b. Yusuf b. Muṭahhar Asadī.
– Al-Lum‘ah al-Damishqīyah: written by blessed martyr Muhammad, b. Makkī b. Muhammad b. Ḥāmid b. Ahmad al-Damishqī al-Nibṭī al-‘Āmilī (734-786). This book along with its interpretation, under the title of al-Rawḍah al-Bahiyah fī Sharḥ Al-Lum‘ah al-Damishqīyah, is a textbook of Shi’a seminaries.
The most important Uṣūlī texts
– Al-Dharī‘ah ilá al-Uṣūl al-Sharī‘ah, Sayyid Murtaḍā,
– ‘Uddah al-Uṣūl, Sheikh Ṭūsī,
– Ma‘ārij al-Uṣūl, Muḥaqqiq Ḥillī,
– Nihāyah al-Uṣūl, ‘Allāmah Ḥillī,
– Tamhīd al-Qawā‘id, Shahīd al-Thānī,
– Ma‘ālim al-Uṣūl, Sheikh Muhammad Ḥasan b. Shahīd al-Thānī,
– Zubdah al-Uṣūl, Sheikh Bahā’ī,
– Al-Fawā’id al-Madanīyah, Muhammad Amīn Astarābādī,
– Al-Fawā’id al-Ḥā’irīyah, Waḥīd Bihbahānī,
– Al-Wāfīyah fī al-Uṣūl, Fāḍil Tūnī,
– Sharḥ al-Wāfīyah, Sayyid Ṣadr al-Dīn Qumī,
– Qawānīn al-Uṣūl, Mīrzā-yi Qumī,
– Al-Fuṣūl fī ‘Ilm al-Uṣūl, Sheikh Muhammad Ḥusein b. ‘Abd al-Raḥīm,
– Farā’id al-Uṣūl, Sheikh Anṣārī,
– Badā’i‘ al-Afkār, Mīrzā Ḥabīb Allah Rashtī,
– Baḥr al-Fawā’id, Mīrzā Muhammad Ḥasan Āshtiyānī,
– Kifāyah al-Uṣūl, Muḥaqqiq Khurāsānī (Ākhūnd),
– Nihāyah al-Dirāyah, Muḥaqqiq Isfahanī (Kumpānī),
– Fawā’id al-Uṣūl, recounting of Nā’īnī’s presentations by Kāzimī,
– Ajwad al-Taqrīrāt, recounting of Nā’īnī’s presentations written by Ayatollah Khu’ī,
– Durar al-Fawā’id, Sheikh ‘Abdu al-Karīm Ḥā’irī,
– Maqālāt al-Uṣūl, Āqā Ḍiyā’ al-Dīn Iraqi,
– Nihāyah al-Afkār, recounting of Āqā Ḍiyā’ al-Dīn Iraqi’s presentations written by Muhammad Taqī Brūjirdī,
– Badā’i‘ al-Afkār, recounting of Āqā Ḍiyā’ al-Dīn Iraqi’s presentations written by Mīrzā Ḥāshim Āmulī,
– Manāhij al-Wuṣūl ilá ‘Ilm al-Uṣūl, imam Khomeini,
– Tahdhib al-Uṣūl, recounting of imam Khomeini’s presentations written by Sheikh Ja‘far Subḥānī,
– Muḥāḍirāt fī Uṣūl al-Fiqh, recounting of Ayatollah Khu’ī’s presentations written by Fayyāḍ,
– Miṣbāḥ al-Uṣūl, recounting of Ayatollah Khu’ī’s presentations written by Sayyid Muhammad Sarwar Wā‘iẓ Ḥuseinī Bihbūdī,
– Dirāsāt al-Uṣūl, recounting of Ayatollah Khu’ī’s presentations written by Sayyid Ali Shāhrūdī,
– Jawāhir al-Uṣūl, recounting of Ayatollah Khu’ī’s presentations written by Fakhr al-Dīn Zanjānī,
– Maṣābīḥ al-Uṣūl, recounting of Ayatollah Khu’ī’s presentations written by ‘Alā’ al-Dīn Baḥr al-‘Ulūm,
– Buḥūth fī ‘Ilm al-Uṣūl, recounting of Sadr’s presentations written by Sheikh Maḥmūd hāshimī,