Keywords: Traditions dealing with virtues of Qur'anic chapters and verses, traditions dealing with effects of Qur'anic chapters and verses, fabrication of hadith, the phenomenon of encouragement and warning.
Analyzing the contradictory reports admiring and reproaching Mu'allā ibn Khunays and studying the causes for his weakening
Rahimeh Shamshiri1
There exist contradictions among the traditions that praise or reproach a hadith transmitter that occasions at times the difference in the opinions of the Rijal experts with regard to certifying the reliability or weakening (the reliability of) a hadith transmitter. One of the hadith transmitters about whom contradictory reports have been narrated from Imam Sadiq (a.s) is Mu'allā ibn Khunays. Despite existence of authentic traditions in his praise two critics from among early Imami experts in Rijal science have ruled that he is a weak hadith transmitter.
This article attempts - by employing a historical approach - to discover the backgrounds of the issuance of the verdict of weakening him in the eyes of the two Imami Rijal experts by means of analyzing the traditions denoting praise and those denoting reproach, as well as the traditions transmitted by Mu'allā ibn Khunays. In our opinion the fact that al-Najāshī has weakened the reliability of Mu'allā ibn Khunays is that he was under the influence of Ibn al-Ghadā'irī's opinion. The latter's opinion was not because of the traditions reproaching Mu'allā, but rather it originated from his reliance upon the historical reports as well has his ijtihad (independent reasoning) from the collection of indications available in his time.
Keywords: Mu'allā ibn Khunays, traditions denoting praise and or reproach, Rijal of al-Kashshī, al-Najāshī, Ahmad ibn Husayn al-Ghaḍā'irī.
A survey on the Rijal-oriented character of Abū Khālid al-Kābulī, with an emphasis on differentiation among the homonymous names
Mona Zaynali Toroqi2
Alireza Ashtari Tafreshi3
Rouhollah Beheshti-pur4
While studying the Rijal-oriented character of Abū Khālid al-Kābulī we
1.A PhD student of the Qur'an and hadith sciences at the University of Ferdowsi, Mashhad
2.MA at Imam Khomeini International University
3.A Specialized Doctorate, a Faculty member of Imam Khomeini International University
4.A PhD student, and a lecturer in the field of the Qur'an and hadith sciences at the University of Usoul-e Din
