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Maʿānī l-ʾAkhbār (Arabic: مَعانِي الأخبار, lit. the meanings of the Hadiths) is a book compiled by al-Shaykh al-Saduq, who was a prominent Shi'a scholar in fourth/tenth century. It is a collection of the Hadiths narrated from the Prophet (s) and the Ahl al-Bayt (a) which explain and interpret around 500 terms in the Qur'an, other Hadiths, theology, jurisprudence and other areas of Islamic sciences.