The Validity of "KhabarWahid" in Humanities

Discussion of the sources of Humanities is one of the problems of the philosophy of Humanities. Those who admit the possibility of Islamic Humanities, consider the religious texts as one of the sources of Islamic Humanities.The discussion of the validity of authority of "Khabar" and "Al-Amarat Al-Dhanniyah" (Probable Signs) in beliefs and in the interpretation of the holy Quran is previously proposed in the discourses of Al-Usuliyyin (Scholars of the Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence) in addition to the discussions on religious science and Islamic Humanities. The quality of the issues and arguments that is deployed for the authority or no-authority of "Khabar" in the interpretation of the holy Quran, would apply to Humanities and other religious knowledge. Therefore, in this article it is preferred to propose the foundations of the discussion based on the same context and then to analyze the modern issues and viewpoints in Humanities. Seemingly, if the validity and authority is in its Usuli sense that is Munajjiziyyah (Absolute Obligation) and Muazziriyyah (Excusing from an Obligation) then "Khabar Wahid" and any kind of "Al- Amarat Al-Dhanniyah" does not have authority; because the interpreter of the holy Quran and the scholar of Humanities is looking for reality, like the scholars of Kalam or Theology. It is reputable among the Fuqaha and Al-Usuliyyin that "Khabar Wahid" does not have authority for anything except Islamic commandments; but meanwhile some of the researchers believe in the authority of "Khabar Wahid" for interpretation of Quranic verses that the article reviews some of the viewpoints. As previously mentioned, this discussion is not exclusive to the Quranic verses; rather it can be extended to a wide scope of all disciplines of Humanities and natural sciences. The discussion on validity or invalidity takes place in the Quranic verses or narrations regarding to any discipline of Humanities such as History, Interpretation, Psychology, Sociology, Education, and Ethics and so on as well as disciplines of Natural sciences such as Biology, Medicine and so on. This article firstly presents and criticizes the viewpoints of the proponents of authority, then proposes and criticizes two other views.