The report review of the extremists deviation in the light of the cultural function of the Imamate institution

One of the challenges, that since long has bothered the Hadith scholars believing in the Shia Hadith heritage and has confronted them with difficulty in finding a solution for that, is the claim of concocting and forging in the Shia old writings. One of the important cases which has been manipulated for this claim and consequently has resulted a huge assault by dissidents to this valuable heritage- specially topics related with the institution of Imamate- is two reports in the book Rejal Kashshi. Based on these two reports, a period of about 70 years of Shia Hadith history, i.e. from the time of Imam Baqer’s (a) martyrdom in 114 (A.H.) to the time of Imam Reza’s (a) appointment as Imam in 183 (a), has faced a big charge of concocting and forging narrations by Mughira ibn Said and Abulkhatab and their followers; a destructive phenomenon which has been stopped finally by Younis ibn Abd al-Rahman, and the Shia Hadith heritage has been reformed by him. In this article, it has been tried to prove the falseness of these two reports by regarding the tangible and concrete realities in the Shia Hadith history which are organized based on the cultural function of the institution of Imamate.