The Teaching of Bada’ in the Imami Thought From the Beginning of the Disappearance Age to the End of the Baghdad School

Although the pure and monotheistic thinking of Bada’ existed in the early Muslim community, it continued, based on some reasons, in the Shi’i community. There was not any disagreement between the Shi’a theologians in the explanation of Bada’ to the end of the Imams’ (p.b.u.t.) era. After this period, and in the stagnation and inactivity period of Shi’i Kalam, a group of the Mu’tazilites converted to Shi’ism as well as some rationalist Shi’i theologians offered a new explanation of the Bada’, and regarded it as equal to Naskh (abrogation of legislations). This new thinking that, at first, a few thinkers advocated it, gradually found an important place between Shi’a scholars so that towards the middle of the fifth Islamic century /12th century CE it got all pervasive. The Explanation of this new thinking continued by Sheikh al-Mufid, and his disciples also continued this course of thinking.