document validation

The validation of hadiths has always been one of the methods of hadith studies. In line with its importance, Islamic scholars have been challenged to validate the narrations of Nahj al-Balagheh with regard to the authenticity of its narrations. The unique teachings and eloquent text of Nahj al-Balaghah prevent giving up its hadiths under the pretext of its unauthenticated document. The present article deals with the validation of letter 27 of Nahj al-Balagheh and evaluates two documents of Sheikh Mofid and Muhammad bin Ibrahim Thaqafi, emphasizing the accepted rules of ilm al-Rijal, and elevates letter 27 from an unauthenticated source to a documented and valid text. Then letter 27 was submitted to textual analysis and by interpreting Nahj al-Balagha with Nahj al-Balagha, the the common themes from the sermons, letters and words of wisdom in letter 27 and those in other narrations and statements from Nahj al-Balagha were extracted confirming the issuance of that content by the Imam. Then, by creating a narrative system for the Testament of Muhammad bin Abi Bakr, the text was analyzed intertextually based on other hadith books. The present study uses a descriptive analytical and library-based method and the related software for collecting data, the originality of the text and the attribution of letter 27 to Amirul Momineen   was proved and confirmed.

Referring to the medical words of Ahl al-Bayt in the modern era and due to the overlap of some of their teachings with the titles of experimental sciences, especially medical concepts, creates the necessity to deal with the validity of medical traditions. Many books of Sheikh Sadouq’s works is one of sources that refer to medical hadiths, among which, his book Al-Khisal became the focus of this article. The current research examines and validates documental-based the 23 medical narrations of the first volume of this book. The present article, which was carried out in a qualitative, descriptive, analytical, descriptive and statistical method, acquired more than 78.5% “reliable narrators” in the chain of related hadith documents, 87% “musnad” and 48% “reliable and authentic narrations”. It has been achieved and accepted by the narrators, and it has been considered that the result will be the validity of the 23 medical narrations of Al-Khisal.

During the history, hadith has suffered from reference and textual damages. This factor has led to some people criticized over the traditions and caused less attention for some people. Identifying the increasing criteria for the validity of the traditions is a necessary requirement. Hadith derivation reveals various documents, multiple sources, various contents and similar texts for each tradition. Of course, this article will examine the content further. Comparing and matching the multiple documents and texts with each other, eliminates many of the apparent and basic problems of tradition and improves its validity. The purpose of this research is to explain the role of hadith derivation in increasing the validity of the hadith and its usefulness in addition to identifying the effective criteria in the validity of tradition, fixing of documentary and textual problems for many hadiths. This research, for the first time, by presenting numerous examples, would prove the role of derivation in the validation of tradition in two areas of the document and text.