IbnWalid's Exclusion and Its Impact on the Reliability of Basair al-Darajat

Doctoral Student of Religions and Denominations University, Qom Lecturer in Specialized Center for Hadith Sciences Basair al-Darajat fi Ulum Ali Muhammad is an important hadith book of the old Shia hadith compilations in the third century. It contains many hadiths about the merits and the virtues of the Prophet’s household. One of the students of Saffar, "Mohammed bin Hassan bin Walid", also known as Ibn al-Walid allowed his disciples not to quote the book in the other words he has excluded it. It has been mentioned in the Rijal of Najashi, which has caused some disregard this book, due to its exaggeration and overstatements on the virtues of the Prophet’s household. The author of the present paper considers the Ibn al-Walid’s concept of exaggeration as the main source of this problem. He has also reviewed and evaluated the response of some articles in this regard. Proving the concept of exclusion in Ibn al-Walid’s view, he mentions the real meaning of exclusion saying, “It does not mean total refutation and conclusion of its wrongness, and conversely it is something of tawaquf along with caution.”