Scale of Wisdom: A Compendium of Shi'a Hadith: Bilingual Edition

This compendium of Shi’a hadith aims at presenting traditions which are central to understanding the teachings of the Holy Qur’an and the ethical foundations of Islam. The ten-volume title, for which the present volume serves as an abridged edition, was first published in March 1983 in Arabic.The remarkable reception of Mizan al-Hikmah by researchers in the Islamic world shows the keen interest of the new generation of scholars in the pure knowledge of Islam. To simplify the use of this collection, a selection of its most important narrations was published in 1987. The present work is the translation of this Arabic selection and has undergone several years of appraisal and reappraisal by a group of translators at the Islamic College in London in order to make this work accessible to a wider audience.