A study on ascription of some newly-published works to Abu Muhammad Hasan b. Shu ba Ḥarrānī, the well-known Shi a traditionis

Abu Muhammad Hasan b. Shu„ba Ḥarrānī, is a Shi„a traditionist in the 4th/10th century about whom little information is available. The earliest source in which he was mentioned dates back to the tenth/sixteenth century. Familiarity of most of the Shi„a scholars with him is – more than any other reasons – because of a wijāda-type access of Allamah Majlisī and Shaykh Ḥurr „Āmilī to his famous book called Tuḥaf al-‘Uqūl; a work because of which he has been admired by later Twelver Shi„a scholars. In addition to these two books, among the written works of the Nuṣayriyya denomination some other works attributed to Ibn Shu„ba are available: Haqā’iq Asrār al-Dīn, Risāla Mūḍiḥa, and Masā’il. These works have completely been compiled within the Nuṣayriya‟s intellectual aura and are different in style of writing from Tuḥaf al-‘Uqūl. In case the attribution of these works to Ibn Shu„ba proves true, a remarkable amount of our information about him will be corrected and even completed. This article attempts to study the attribution of these works to Ibn Shu„ba by pursuing different evidences.