“The jurisprudential legitimacy of physical Chastisement of the child from perspective of Ahl Al Bayt statements”

Islam has considered several ways for training the children, including: compassion and kindness, encouragement and awarding, making the children to do good actions, etc. and chastisement is the last one when the other ways did not work. The scholars of jurisprudence, educational sciences and psychology despites having disagreements unanimously accept physical chastisement as the las sort and even occasionally consider it necessary. The present paper has tried by studying the statements of the jurists and the jurisprudential Hadiths from the Shiite sources like “Wasa’el Al Shi’a”, “Mustadrak” and “Bihar” to answer the question that if the physical chastisement of the child has a religious base? What is the idea of the scholars of educational sciences? The study of the statements of the Infallibles (AS) show the legitimacy of physical chastisement of the child by certain persons, like father, teacher, executor and the father’s agent to a limited extent like three strokes (for teacher) and six strokes (for father and executor) for certain purposes like educating and training.