Editing Ali al-Rida (section)

==Works==
Several short works are attributed to him:

'''Al-Resalat al-dhahabiya'''
 
Al-Resalat al-dhahabiya (or al-modahhaba) fi’l-tebb is a treatise on medical cures and the maintenance of good health which is said to have been written for the caliph Mansur at his request. <ref>text edited in Bombay and fully quoted in Majlesi, Behar al-anwar LXII, pp. 308-28.</ref> It was named “the golden treatise” because Maʾmun ordered it to be written with gold ink. Among the Imami bibliographers of the 5th/11th century it was known through the initial transmission of Muhammad b. Hasan b. Jomhur ʿAmmi, a Basran Imami transmitter considered unreliable and extremist. A number of commentaries have been written to it and it has been translated into Persian and Urdu. 

'''Sahifat al-Rida'''

Sahifat al-Rida is a collection of 240 Hadiths initially transmitted by Abdallah b. Ahmad b. Amer from his father Ahmad, who stated to have heard it from Rida in 194/809-10. Abdallah b. Ahmad b. Amer is mentioned by Najashias the transmitter of a noskha from Rida. 

'''Feqh al-Rida'''

This book was unknown among Imami scholars until the 10th/16th century, when a group of scholars from Qom brought a copy of it containing numerous ejazas to Mecca. It was judged to be authentic by the two Majlesis but later Imami scholars were divided about it, the majority considering its authenticity as doubtful. It has been convincingly argued by S.H. Sadr that the greater part of the book is taken from the otherwise lost Ketab al-taklif of the Imami heretic Muhammad b. Ali Shalmagani. <ref>d. 322/934; see his “Fasl al-qazaʾ fi’l-Ketab al-moshtahar be Feqh al-Rida,” in Ashnayi ba Chand noskha-ye khatti I, Qom, 1396/1976, pp. 389-442.</ref> Other works attributed to Rida are listed in Aʿyan al-Shiʿa. <ref>IV/2, pp. 180ff., and Sezgin, GASI, p. 536.</ref> Shiʿite sources also contain detailed description of his debates on religious questions and quotations of his sayings and his poetry.