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Muntahā l-āmāl is structured in 14 chapters, each involving some sections dealing with personal lives, virtues, events, children and family, narrators and companions of each Infallible. Muntahā l-āmāl is a well-known book among Shiites. It has been translated into Arabic by Sayyid Hashim Milani.

'Abbas b. Muhammad Rida b. Abu al-Qassim, a well-known contemporary Shiite clergy and scholar of hadiths, was born in Qom. He learned preliminary materials there. In 1316/1898-9, he moved to Najaf and attended the lectures of Mirza Husayn Nuri. In 1320/1902 after the death of his master, he returned to Qom. He then went from Qom to Mashhad and lived there for a while. He finally went back to Najaf and died there.

Muntaha l-amal is a biography of the Prophet (s), his daughter, Lady Fatima al-Zahra (a), and the Twelve Shiite Imams (a). Regarding each of these figures the book talks about their birth, title, kunya, some of their virtues and moral character, their miracles, the evidence for the imamate of each Imam, their aphorisms, their martyrdom, and their burial.[1]

Muntaha l-amal consists of 14 chapters each dealing with the life of one of the 14 Infallibles (a). Each chapter contains sections dealing with their personal lives, a brief account of virtues, the events, children and family, narrators and companions. The life of the Prophet (s), Imam 'Ali (a) and in particular the murder of Imam al-Husayn (a) constitute a major part of the book.[3]

The author often cites his sources, and in a recent publication of the book, edited by Baqiri Bidihindi, the sources have been specified exactly by mentioning their volume and page numbers in footnotes. The author tries to mention different accounts of one and the same event.

Shaykh Abbas Qummi has written a supplement to the book under Tatimma al-muntaha fi waqa'i' ayyam al-khulafa' (a supplement of Muntaha on the events of the periods of Caliphs). In the preface the author says that:"I started to write a treatise about Imam al-Hasan's (a) sons. However, after writing some parts of it, I figured out that it cannot be a treatise so I decided to publish it as a supplement of Muntaha l-a'mal."