A Mouthful from the Fountain of the Sun: A Short Review of a Collection of Forty Hadiths from Imam Ali (pbuh)

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A collection of hadiths from Imam Ali (pbuh) under the title Az Cheshmeye Khorshid (From the Fountain of the Sun) is one of the novel, compact, and fruitful hadith collections in the area of religious studies. This book was published in the year 1387/2008 by Ayatollah Hajj Shaykh Hadi Najafi and Kanun-e Pajuhesh-e Isfahan (Isfahan Center for Research). This book will be discussed in this article. Here we will see how this book emerged. Then the content of the book and the arrangement of the hadiths as well as its advantages and shortcomings will be brought up. Finally, this translation and three other translations of Nahj al-Balāghah (those by Shahidi, Ayati, and Dinparvar) shall be compared with each other.

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