Mirza Husain Noori Tabarsi

Mirza Husain Noori Tabarsi Mazandarani
Born (1483-11-10)10 November 1483
Noor, Mazandaran, Qajar Persia
Died 18 February 1546(1546-02-18) (aged 62)
Najaf, Iraq
Notable work
  • Mustadrak al-Wasāʼil
  • An-Najm Al-Thāqib
  • Salman The Persian
  • LoʼLoʼ va Marjān
Theological work

Mirza Husain Noori Tabarsi (Persian: میرزا حسین نوری طبرسی‎‎, Arabic: الميرزا حسين النوري الطبرسي‎) (1838 - 1902) popularly known as Muhaddis Noori / Al-Mohaddith Al-Noori (meaning Noori the Traditionalist), was a top Islamic cleric and a representative of the conservative school of the Akhbaris (opposed to the usulis in term of methodology regarding religion). He was originated from the town of Noor, Northern Iran in province Tabarestan. Muhaddith Noori died at the age of 66 years in holy Najaf and was laid to rest on the right side of the entrance to the Mausoleum of Imam Ali.

Life

On 18th of the Islamic month of Shawwal in 1254 AH, the well-known Islamic scholar and theologian, Mohaddith Mirza Hussein Nouri, was born in the northern Iranian city of Nour in Mazandaran. Following the completion of his preliminary studies, he strove to scrutinize the vast hadith literature and became an authority in this regard. In the words of Allameh Sheikh Agha Bozorg Tehrani, Allameh Nouri was one of the most eminent, honorable, and precedent companions of the great Mirza Shirazi. The documents remaining from the Tobacco Movement indicate that Allameh Mohaddes Nouri who stood shoulder to shoulder with his master had a fundamental role in this movement.

Education and Masters

He studied in Iraq under leading scholars including Ayatollah Shaikh Morteza Ansari and Mirza Mohammed Hassan Husseini Shirazi. He was an authority on Islamic sciences, including hadith, exegesis of the Holy Qur'an, theology, and biography of ulema. He groomed numerous students, including Shaikh Abbas Qomi, the author of the famous prayer and supplication manual, "Mafatih al-Jinaan" (Keys of Paradise). Allameh Mohaddes Nouri’s masters:

Works

He was an authority on Islamic sciences, including hadith, exegesis of the Holy Qur'an, theology, and biography of ulema. He groomed numerous students, including Shaikh Abbas Qomi, the author of the famous prayer and supplication manual, "Mafatih al-Jinaan" (Keys of Paradise).

A prolific writer, Muhaddith Noori wrote many books including "Najm as-Saqeb" on the Imam of the Age, Imam Mahdi (may God hasten his reappearance). Among his works is the voluminous book "Mustadrak al-Wasa'el”, in which he has collected 123,000 hadith of the Infallible Imams on the line of Shaikh Hur al Ameli’s “Wasa'el ash-Shi'a".

Some of his Books

He wrote numerous works in both Persian and Arabic, many of them were translated to other languages including English and Urdu, between them:

Death

On 27th of the Islamic month of Jamadi as-Sani in 1320 AH, the prominent Iranian Islamic scholar, Mirza Hussain Noori Tabarsi, popularly known as Muhaddith Noori, passed away at the age of 66 years in holy Najaf and was laid to rest on the right side of the entrance to the Mausoleum of Imam Ali (AS). Mohaddes Mirza Hossein Nouri was a god-fearing learned man and a pious jurisprudent. (Ruhollah Mūsavi Khomeini, Forty Hadith, V. 1, p. 2)

Allameh Mohaddes Nouri University

The Main Campus of Allameh Mohaddes Nouri University, Noor, Iran

Allameh Mohaddes Nouri University or AMNU (Persian: دانشگاه علامه محدث نوری‎‎), formerly known as Institute of Higher Education, is a non-gonvernmental and non-profit university which was founded in 1996 in the town of Noor, Iran through an official license from Iran's Ministry of Science, Research and Technology (MSRT) with the mission to advance knowledge, science and technology, and train competent and creative talents at undergraduate and graduate levels. It was named after Noori's name.[10]

Notes

  1. ↑ Agha Bozorg Tehrani (1983). adh-Dharīʿa ilā tasānīf ash-Shīʿa - volume 21 (in Arabic) (Hardcover ed.). Beirut, Lebanon: Dar Al-Adwaa’. p. 7.
  2. ↑ Agha Bozorg Tehrani (1983). adh-Dharīʿa ilā tasānīf ash-Shīʿa - volume 24 (in Arabic) (Hardcover ed.). Beirut, Lebanon: Dar Al-Adwaa’. p. 69.
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  4. ↑ Agha Bozorg Tehrani (1983). adh-Dharīʿa ilā tasānīf ash-Shīʿa - volume 18 (in Arabic) (Hardcover ed.). Beirut, Lebanon: Dar Al-Adwaa’. p. 11.
  5. ↑ Agha Bozorg Tehrani (1983). adh-Dharīʿa ilā tasānīf ash-Shīʿa - volume 5 (in Arabic) (Hardcover ed.). Beirut, Lebanon: Dar Al-Adwaa’. p. 159.
  6. ↑ Agha Bozorg Tehran (1983). adh-Dharīʿa ilā tasānīf ash-Shīʿa - volume 24 (in Arabic) (Hardcover ed.). Beirut, Lebanon: Dar Al-Adwaa’. p. 264.
  7. ↑ Agha Bozorg Tehrani (1983). adh-Dharīʿa ilā tasānīf ash-Shīʿa - volume 16 (in Arabic) (Hardcover ed.). Beirut, Lebanon: Dar Al-Adwaa’. p. 408.
  8. ↑ Agha Bozorg Tehrani (1983). adh-Dharīʿa ilā tasānīf ash-Shīʿa - volume 8 (in Arabic) (Hardcover ed.). Beirut, Lebanon: Dar Al-Adwaa’. p. 20.
  9. ↑ Agha Bozorg Tehrani (1983). adh-Dharīʿa ilā tasānīf ash-Shīʿa - volume 18 (in Arabic) (Hardcover ed.). Beirut, Lebanon: Dar Al-Adwaa’. p. 37.
  10. ↑ "About the University". Allameh Mohaddes Nouri University Website. Retrieved 1 February 2015.

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