KASHIF - AL- GHITA

 

               Jafar bin Qizr bin Yahya Janahi Hilli Najafi, Kashif al-Ghita (1743-1812

               A.D./1156-1227 A.H.), patriarch of Kashif al-Ghita family is famous as Jafar-i

               Kabeer and Shaikh Mashaikh, He was a well-known jurist, theologian, researcher,

               writer, scholar, poet and a sole Marja of the Shi'ites. After compiling the famous

               work on jurisprudence known as kashif al-Gihta he derived the apellation of kashif

               al-Gihta. He was born in Najaf and studied primary Islamic sciences under his

               father and studied advanced jurisprudence and its principles under the famous

               scholar and jurisconsults of Iraq and became a very famous scholar and

               jurisconsult and started teaching at the seminaries. In his elasses a great numbers

               of scholars used to attend who later on became prominent researchers and

               jurisconsults in the literary and scientific circles of Iran and Iraq.

               His specialization and expertise was in jurisprudence and its principles and his

               many works paritcularly the famous Kashif al-Ghita in these fields demonstrates

               his mastered skills in deducing Islamic injunctions. He compiled this well known

               work during his tour of Iran when he had only the book Qawaid written by Allamah

               Hilli.

               After the demise of Bahrul Uloom, Shaykh Jafar Kashif al-Ghita became the sole

               Marja of the Shi'ites of Iraq, Iran and other parts of the world and his popularity

               and social and political influence increased immensely so that he become the sole

               Marja of the Shi'ites of the whole world. Kashif al-Ghita has written many books

               particularly in the fields of jurisprudence, principles of jurisprudence, theology and

               Arabic literature, which are as follows:

 

                    1 - Al-Haq -ul-Mubeen fi Tasweeb al Mujtahideen waTaqta'a-tal-Akhbariyeen.

                    2 - Kashf ul-Ghita and Khaffiyat Mubhamat ash-Shariyya al-Ghara.

                    3 - Bagiya -tul - Taleb fi Marifah al Maffuz al-Wajib.

                    4 - At-Tahqeeq wa Tanqir fima Yatallaq bil Maqadir.

                    5 - Ar - Risalah tus-Saumiyah.

                    6 - Meshkat al-Masabih.

                    7 - Risalah fil ibadat al-Ma'liyah.

                    8 - Ghaya-tul-Murad fi Ahkam al-Jehad.

                    9 - Minhaj ar-Rashad Laman Arad us-Saddad.