أحمد بن محمد بن خالد البرقي (المتوفي سنة 274 ه أو 280 ه)‎ و كتابه (المحاسن)‎

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Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Khaled Al – Barqi considers an eminent personalities among Shia narrators in the third century AH, his birth in the city of Qom in Iran, But he is descended from the Iraqi origins of Kufa, where his grandfather emigrated from it where he settled in Barq, a suburb of Qom, in Iran.

The talk about the weakness of Ahmed al-Barqi does not mean that he is unverified person because he was narrated only unverified Islamic sayings.

It has proved that just rely on the unverified ones do not mean the lack of confidence of the narrator himself, So Al-Ash'ari returned to Qom after he expelled him and apologized to him, and when Al-Barqi died, Al-Ash'ari walked barefoot in Al Barqi’s funeral.

There was an argument about date of his death, but it is expected between 274 and 280 AH.

He has many works, most notably the book "AL Mahasen", which is one of the most important encyclopedias of jurisprudence and of the early Hadiths.

Book of "AL Mahasen" consists of multiple volumes of 100 ones, but most of them had lost but only 13 volumes from his book are available nowadays.

The most common version of his book contains eleven books.