Traditions of the Supernatural Aspects of Shiite imams; A Study of Chain of Narrators on the Basis of Dirayat al-hadith

There are traditions in the Shiite tradition heritage that declare Imams extraordinary acts and miracles to prove their rightfulness against opponents. These narratives, like other traditions, should be investigated and criticized in terms of text and chain of transmitters. Exaggerators (Gholat) showed special interesting to these traditions; therefore criticize and refine of these traditions is more necessary. This paper studies the chain of transmitters of these narrations, and aim to answer these questions on the basis of Dirayat al-hadith: what position have the books and narrators of these traditions? What is the main problem of the chain of narrators of these traditions? According to `Ilm al-Rijāl, what position have narrators of these narrations? Domain of this study is books and collections of traditions till 7th century and traditions of miracles of sixth to eleventh Shiite Imams. This study shows that the authors of these texts or the books have major drawbacks. There are also some disadvantages in the chain of transmitters and narrators; some are weak and some are unknown (majhul) or their narrations are Mursal. Disagreements of Rijal scholars about validity of narrators makesthejudgment more complex