Sheikh al-Mufid wrote nearly 194 books and treatises, out of which few have survived passage of time, and meticulously planned destruction of the Shia resources. Among the surviving ones, we have his Al-Amaali, which is also known as Al-Majaalis. His student al-Najashi has mentioned it as Al-Amaali Al-Mutafarriqaat. These were sessions held in the month of Ramadhan where al-Mufid read the traditions giving the chain of narration ending up to him and the students wrote them down. Those who were absent wrote down from the recording of their colleagues, and then got it ratified by reading the...