Documental and Denotation Examination of the Hadith If AbuDhar had known what was in the heart of Salman, he would kill him and Criticism of the Incorrect Understandings

The hadith "If AbuDhar had known what was in the heart of Salman, he would kill him" is one of the difficult narrations and there are two different approaches about its denotation and meaning: the negative-esoteric approach and the positive approach. Of course this approach has not been immune from misuse, as if the Sufis put it in the sense of correctness of their apparent and personal perceptions of the Sharia, and the religious pluralists considered it as a reason for rightness of all thoughts and necessity of tolerance for every conception of religion. While examining the documentation and denotation of this hadith, in this writing we try to explain the arguments of each of the present approaches in interpreting it in order to show that the uses of the Sufis and the modern religious pluralists are not methodical and are not consistent with the principles of hadith understanding.