The unveiling ceremony of “Encyclopedia of The Qur`an and Hadith” was held at October 6, at Dar al-Hadith institute (in Qom) with presence of Iranian government and Howzah Authorities.

As Dar al-Hadith broadcast reported, in this ceremony Hujjatol-Islam Muhammad Muhammadi Golpaygani the manager of office of the great leader of Islamic of Iran, Ali Larijani the Head of Islamic parliament of Iran, Ayatullah Ray Shahri the boss of Dar al-Hadith institute, and great Ayatullah Ustadi, Karimi, Salawati, and Elahi (professors of Howzah), and some agents of Maraja` Taqlid were participated.

In this ceremony Ali Larijani and Hadad Adel (the principle of cultural commission of Islamic parliament) made speech, and emphasized on the importance of such encyclopedia and asked of scientist of Islamic sciences and scholars to disseminate these Islamic and ethic teachings.

Moreover in this ceremony the head of Hadith research center made speech too, and introduced this encyclopedia and reported a sum of activities have been done during compiling this work.

Meanwhile this encyclopedia is in alphabetical arrangement with the aim of presenting the knowledge of Qur`an and Sunnah of Prophet (peace be Upon Him and His Family) and still Ahadith of Ahl al-Bayts and published in Arabic Language in ten volumes and translated to Farsi language and published in sixteen volumes.

But until now only the tow first letters “a” and “b” is published, so the experts and scholars of Islamic sciences can do use of them, and the complete volume of it is predicted to be about sixty volumes and its Farsi translation about hundred volumes.

The characteristics of this encyclopedia are presenting Hadith with Qur`an text together, arranging related Ahadith in a separate section, brevity of Ahadith by omitting the similar one, criticizing on and improving probable ta`aroz (some Ahadith with which have theme in contrary to each other), easy access to the desired Ahadith, and presenting needful analysis.

And finally it should be mentioned that this encyclopedia has been compiled in accordance with verses of Qur`an and Ahadith of Ahl al-Bayt (p.b.u.th), and explain and clarify contents like religious, ethical, political, economical, cultural, and belief, lots of subjects, and subtitles like religious and so on.

Source: darolhadith