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rhyme and pun to help the survival of teachings. Moreover, morphological and syntactic deconstructions make readers suddenly face with foregrounding, along with a pleasure of understanding this phenomenon.

Key Words: Stylistics, Sahifa al-SaHAadiyya, Imam SaHAad (a.s), Supplication on Noble Moral Traits Makarim al-Akhlaq.

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Hadith "al-'Ashara Mubashshira" Symbol of the Relation of the Politics to Hadith Forgery

Ali Raad

Sayyed Mahdi Hosseini

Hadith " al-'Ashara Mubashshira [the ten Companions promised paradise]" a quasi hadith attributed to the Prophet (s.a) is of the most famous texts in the Sunni’s hadith and kalam. It plays a serious role in legitimization and justification of the acts of the three caliphs and their agents. Hence, it is one of the most important principles in the political thought of caliphs’ school. In view of the political and theological functions and role of the tradition, many efforts have been justified by the scholars of the caliphs school to preserve and promote it. Although the past and present Shia scholars have discredited it as a forged hadith due to its altered contents and documents. In recent decades, we are witnessing that some Orientalists have studied this hadith and got the same results as the Shia scholars. The results of an orientalistic research indicate the clever forgery of the hadith for political uses aiming at establishing the theory of Caliphate in the school of caliphs against the theory of the Nas (the Text) in the school of Ahl al-Bayt (a.s).

Key Words: Hadith " al-'Ashara Mubashshira [the ten Companions Promised Paradise]", Maya Yazigi, Political Traditions, Hadith Forgery, the Caliphate of the Companions.

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Priority of Ethics over Religion in "Usul al-Kafi"

Sayyed Hamid Hosseini

The relationship between religion and ethics is of the most important issues in the philosophy of ethics. The correct understanding of it will bring about positive effects in the various intellectual and social areas. Analyzing the traditions of Usul al-Kafi, the author of the present paper tries to identify and explain the views of religious leaders about the relation of ethics to Islamic literature. This study shows that the traditions of this collection consider wisdom as the valid source of morality without question. They also hold that ethics is prior to religion in rank and

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