جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « writing hadith » در نشریات گروه « علوم قرآن و حدیث »

The family of the Prophet (SAW) are the highest authority next to the Noble Quran as the Prophet recommended at the last moment of his life, saying 'I leave you with two successors, Allah's Book - a long rope between the Heaven and the earth, or between the Heaven to the earth - and my family; they will not be separated till they return back to me at the Pool (Hawd)'. The Almighty God has chosen them for the guidance and leadership of the Muslim after the Prophet (SAW). (AS), the fifth Imam and leader after the Prophet (SAW), holded the control of the ark of guidance at the time when the social and political conditions had changed from that of the earliest Imams: therefore he was able to teach his knowledge to those eager and to open the doors of different sciences. In this article, we are about to mention some of his scholastic activities and his recommendations about recording, memorizing and writing hadith.

After the holy Prophet passed away, compiling and transmitting the Prophetic tradition faced with many problems. Imam Ali, peace be upon him, emphasized on writing, transmitting, and reporting the Prophetic tradition, but after the holy Prophet the situation changed. In this article, the author at first presents some speeches from Imam Ali on the necessity of writing, recording, compiling, and disseminating hadith and then tries to report the Alavi's written heritage which has been written in order to record and safeguard the holy Prophet's heritage.

Writing hadith after its issuance from an Infallible Imam and compiling reliable books are of important and effective factors in safeguarding and perpetuation of hadith. According to historical evidences, conditions of writing hadith for the Shiite and Sunni were not of the same degree. Writing the Prophetic hadiths _ which are found out in the Sunni hadith sources _ faced with many limitations and prohibitions and was formed a long time after their issuance. While Shiites had no difficulty in writing hadith were also encouraged to. The present paper tries to depict the differences between these two school of hadith scholarship concerning hadith and its recording.