The extent of reliability of Sunni traditions from the perspective of Shi'a scholars
Hamid Reza Basiri1
Fereshteh Darabi2
Some of Shi'a scholars do not stipulate that the hadith transmitter must profess the Shi'a faith so that one may accept the hadith or a report he quotes from Prophet Muhammad (s. a. w) or from the pure Infallible Imams (a.s). They consider it sufficient that the hadith transmitters would be trustworthy. What confirms this is the history of Shi'a scholars denoting that they dealt with this subject from different standpoints to the extent that they had at times contradictory opinions about the reliability or unreliability of Sunni hadith transmitters.
By making use of ascription-orientated way of library method and using descriptive-analytical way, this research intends to analyze the standpoints of the Shi'a scholars about the reliability of Sunni narrators during a time span between early scholars’ era and modern days.
Contemplating the books of early scholars, particular authentications (tawthīqāt khāṣṣah) as well as general authentications (tawthīqāt ‘āmmah) about the Sunni narrators will be achieved. Later scholars, who follow the example of early ones, have stated in their works both types of authentications about the certain Sunni narrators. Making use of indications and evidences, they have analyzed their reports and have declared the reason for soundness of them.
The present research has achieved comprehensive indications by juxtaposing different aspects of the fundamentals of both groups of Shi'a scholars. By studying some of the most important Rijal-orientated and hadith-orientated sources this research has stated statistics of the number of trustworthy Sunni narrators.
Keywords: Sunni narrators, reliability of the narrators, fundamentals of the Rijal experts, validating the narrators.
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A study on traditions in Shi'a and Sunni sources denoting that the Prophet and the Pure Imams had no shadows
Maysam Kohan-torabi3
In certain Shi'a and Sunni hadith books some traditions are found denoting
1.Assistant Professor at the University of Allamah Tabatabaei.
2.PhD Student in Qur'an and Hadith Sciences at University of Allamah Tabatabaei.
3.Assistant Professor at the University of Bozorgmehr in Qa'enat.
