The Role of the Readings Quoted from Imams (A.S.) in the Shi ite Legal Interpretations A Case Study of the Qur an, 5: 95

Analysis of the reports that include Readings attributed to Imams (A.S.) and the examining the grounds that led to their emergence requires a comprehensive research. This article is the first step to achieve this goal, by which we have tried to show what roles the reports that transmit Imams Reading have played in issuing a legal order. As a result, we have addressed the function of Ṣādiqayn’s Reading in the Qur’an 5: 95, and concluded that even if Imāmī jurisprudents didn’t focus their interpretations on this Reading alone, their ruling about atonement of hunting while at the pilgrimage that is based on the other reports of Imams are in line with the Reading quoted from Ṣādiqayn. Thus, those single transmissions that include the Reading of Imams, like other single reports, can be used in the Jurisprudential researches, provided that they possess required conditions. One cannot put them aside only because of their being set forth in the form of Reading, for the content of the Reading in question is supported by consonantal outline of the codifications of Imam Ṣādiq’s age and by the fatwas of the Shi’ites and the Sunnis.