Analysis of Credibility Ismail bin Abī-Zīād Sakkūnī

Ismail bin Abī-Zīād Sakkūnī Shaᶜīrī is one of the narrators whose narrations quoted several times in different books that resulted in his significance in narrative and juridical sources. He has described “weak” and “Sunnite” in juridical and Rijali sources for several reasons: lack of sheikh Sadūq’s fatwa about his exclusive narrations (Monfaredāt), explicit view of several jurisprudents and Shiite Rijali scholars about his weakness, being Sunni, and even his heresy, and joint path with Sunnis. In this essay after clarification of mentioned reasons and evidences, these statements has been rethink critically in order to discover their validity in proving the mentioned view about Ismail’s weakness and being Sunni. The result was that regarding to the reasons and evidences, some effective documents about his weakness or credibility have not been considered or the mentioned view is exclusively based on reference to Rijali sources. Lack of attention on his credibility and belonging to Īmāmīeh such as his narration’s content, lack of Ahl-Bayt (pbut)’s reservation for saying narration to him, his narrations’ acceptance, quotation of narration of him by consensus’s companions, and numerous quotation of narration of him by scholars are other defects of this viewpoint. Thus, Ismail will be accepted among Shiite narrators and even among credible Shias.