Compiled by Sheikh-e Mufīd', Abū Abdullāh Muhammad son of Muhammad son of No'mān Akbarī Baghdādī (336-413 Hegira)
Ethical and ideological narrations, and History of Islām
Sheikh-e Mufīd has dictated the materials of this book to his students during the month of Ramadhān (fasting month in Islām), within seven successive years, totally in 42 sessions.
Najāshī has named this book Amālī Mutafarriqāt' (Dispersed dictations) because it has been gathered dispersedly from 404 to 411 Hegira.
Amālī is one of the valuable resources of Shi'a in obtaining the words of the infallible household of the Holy Prophet (Ahl-ul-Bayt A.S.).
It is a notable source for access to history of Islām, and sayings of the honorable Imāms (A.S.) in the field of ethical and ideological issues.
The books of Sheikh-e Mufīd are entirely ranged among the most authentic narration sources of Shi'a, and have continuously received the most attention of great scholars and jurisprudents of Shi'a during the past 1,000 years. His Amālī' also is not an exception, and is being accounted as one of his trustworthy books.
Allāmah Majlesī cites about this book: "We have gained some of the ancient copies of Amālī, and there are convincing evidence on their accuracy and authenticity."
The tyrannical caliphates of Umayyades and Abbasides endeavored severely to annihilate the names and remembrance of Ahl-ul-Bayt (A.S.), and for the same reason they either imprisoned or martyrized many of the great sages of Shi'a in the hope of extinguishing their divine light. However, the devotee sages of Shi'a, by sacrificing their life, conveyed the sayings of those infallible Imāms to all people throughout the history.
Sheikh-e Mufīd and many other scholars of Shi'a recited the narrations of Ahl-ul-Bayt (A.S.) in their sessions, and their pupils wrote them down and called these writings Amālī' (i.e. transcriptions, which are dictated by someone).
Transcriptions (Amālī) have been one of the most common styles of Shi'a scholars for conveying narrations of Ahl-ul-Bayt (A.S.) to others, especially at ancient times when there was no facilities for printing.
The first Amālī in the history of Islām, is the book attributed to the holy Prophet Muhammad (S.A.) who dictated it to Imām Alī (A.S.), some parts of which has reached us by Imām Sādiq (A.S.) via Sheikh-e Sadūq. But its original copy is on the hand of the occulted Imām (Imām-e Asr Mahdī, may Allāh hasten his reappearance).
1- Sheikh-e Sadūq
2- Sheikh-e Mufīd
3- Sheikh-e Tūsī
4- Sayyid Murtadhā Alam-ul-Hudā
5- Sheikh Ibrāhīm Ibn-e Sulaymān Qutayfī
6- Abū Abdullāh Neyshābūrī (also known as Sheikh-e Mufīd)
7- Sheikh Abū Bakr Ahmad son of Husain son of Ahmad Khazāee
8- Sharīf, Abū Muhammad Nāsir Kabīr Atrūsh
1- A copy available at Ayatollah Najafī Mar'ashī's library whose date has been 755 Hegira (script of Ali son of Hasan son of Ahmad son of Ibrāhīm son of Mażāhir)
2- A copy at Ostād Sayyid Jalāleddīn Armawī's library. Husain Ostadwalī and Alī Akbar Ghaffārī have made a research on this copy and written an introduction at the opening of its new edition. There are various indexes at the end of this edition such as: index of subjects, index of proper nouns (A'lām), and other indexes of places, homes, tribes, nations, ..