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Madinat al-‘Ilm seems to have been an early #ShiiHadith encyclopaedia compiled by Ibn Babawayh al-Shaykh al-Saduq (d. 991) but which has not been extant since the later 16thC 1/
Recently a recovered text based on citations has been published mktba.net/library.php?id… 2/ 
The early #Shii bibliographies all mention the text and that it was voluminous and larger than Man la yahduruhu l-Faqih - 10 to 4 in ratio 3/
#manuscripts #ShiiTheology an autograph of Sayyid Ahmad ‘Alawi ‘Amili (d. c. 1650), son-in-law of Mir Damad (d. 1631), commentary on one of the #FourBooks of #ShiiHadith al-Istibsar of al-Tusi (d. 1065) MS Mar’ashi 5368 dated 1039/1629 1/
It seems that this commentary was written in refutation of the #Akhbari commentary of Muhammad Amin Astarabadi (d. c. 1626) hadith.net/PrintSourceTex… 2/
The #FourBooks seem to have become canonised during the #Safavid period with the earliest explicit reference in the work of al-Shahid II Zayn al-Din al-‘Amili d. 1558), although one finds reference in the later 15th century to الاصول الاربعة and الاصول الخمسة
