كتاب التاريخ للعلامة محمد بن آدم البالكي (ت 1237ه )‎ : قسم (حياة الإمام علي بن موسى الرضا عليه السلام (148-203 ه )‎ )‎

Abstract EN

This study, titled 'Muhammad Bin Adam Balaki's Book of Al-Ta'reekh (History), the Chapter of the Biography of Imam Ali Bin Musa Al-Ridha (203 148 Hijri) : Analysis and Verification', falls into two parts.

Part one analyses the manuscript.

Part two verifies the manuscript.

Part one consists of an introduction, a preface, two sections and conclusion.

The preface deals with the life of the Alu Al-Bait (house hold of the Prophet peace be upon him), especially the biography of the eighth imam, Ali bin Musa Al-Ridha and his honorary dignities and his stance with the Abbasside Khaleefa Al-Ma'moon (189-218 Higri) and his selection as Ma'moon's Crown Prince at first and his life in Khurasan accompanying the Abbasside Khaleefa.

The first section describes the manuscript, its attribution to Ibn Adam and his method in writing history.

Section two is about of researchers' method in verification, abandoning the studying the biography of Ibn Adam because much has been written on it.

This part ends with a conclusion, in which the most important results are summed up, and appendix for the unique pages of the manuscript.

The second part is allocated for the verification of the text of the manuscript which starts from pages 414-422 in the scanned version because the page numbers are not clear or even not available.