Al-Navader Ashari as a Hadith Source for al-Kafi Koleini

al-Kafi book is one of the preceding and authoritative hadith books of the Shia which has been compiled by the use of previous books and pieces of writing. Kafi’s hadiths have mostly been derived from principles sources and other authentic ones. One of these sources is al-Navader by Ahmad Bin Mohammad Bin Issa Ashari which has been written before al-Kafi. Using descriptive and analytical-adaptive methods, the present article deals with narrations in al-Navader and those in al-Kafi in order to compare them with each other that show a major part of this book has been used in order to compile al-Kafi and is considered as one of its sources. Base on the considerable pieces of evidence which will be dealt with in this article a challenging theory based on which al-Navader attributed to Hossein Bin Saeed Ahvazi will also be brought up here, but it is worth mentioning that documentary and textual differences existing between the hadiths of these two books are undeniable. So through analyzing and reviewing these two books, al-Navader is considered as an important source for al-Kafi.