An Investigation of Ghiyath bn Kallub al-Bajali's Religion

Since early days of hadith scholarship,Shiite rijal scholars have made efforts to know the hadith reporters’ religion and their reliability due to the influence of their approach to hadith transmission. Sometimes, we met some hadith reports while describing the characteristics of hadith reporters which are difficult to understand. One of them is to consider Ghiyath bn Kallub al- Bajali as `ammi (Sunni). On the other hand different sorts of information from books such as Najashi’s fihrist, and Shaykh Tusi’s Fihrist in description of hadith reporters have been neglected. In this study, the auther tries to reject this claim that Ghiyath bn Kallub al-Bajali is an `ammi and prove that he is a Shia. To do so, he also takes a look at some rijal books of 2 the people of Sunnah and investigates their views about him.