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Reintroduction of the 'Abd al-Jalil Razi's...
Hadith Principles and Functions in the Book of Naqd

Mohammad Mahdi Ehsanifar ^۱

'Abd al-Jalil Razi, one of the Shiite theologians, wrote the book of Naqd Ba’d Fada’ih al-Rawafid in the second half of the sixth century After Hijrah and through this book, he responded to some of the doubts posed by his contemporary Sunnites against Shiism. He based his debate on more than 270 Qur'anic verses and more than 180 traditions, and presented his discussion in a book of five hundred pages. In this article first, a brief introduction will be presented on 'Abd al-Jalil and his book. Then, the principles of the Hadith discussions launched by him, as a jurisprudence-oriented Shiite, will be analyzed. Next, the Hadith resources used in his book, some of which are no more available, and the material which were provided by Nasir al-Din Razi about their authors will be re-identified. Furthermore, his method and principles in Fiqh al-Hadith (Hadith Scholarship) and Naqd al-Hadith (Hadith Criticism), which

other times, they have been applied to verify the author's beliefs. The study of some of the hermeneutic readings applied in Naqd reveals that, in comparison to the interpretive readings, they have been much more influential. In some cases, the hermeneutic implications trace back to accusations made by the opponents and their study could reveal the conditions out of which they have developed. Certainly, the identification of these gaps can prepare the ground for the pathology of the preliminary Islamic sects.
Keywords: hermeneutics of the Qur'an, theological thoughts, interpretation, the book of Naqd, 'Abd al-Jalil Razi.