Critique of Qifari’s View About Jabir al-Ju’fi

Jabir b. Yazid al-Ju’fi is one of the companions of Imam Baqir and Imam Sadiq (as), and among the famous Shi'a narrators, whom many narratives exist in praising or reprehending. Few Imamiyya scholars have criticized him, but many others have authorized and counted him among the greatest narrators and elite companions of these two Imams. Those few narratives in criticizing him made an excuse for Nasir b. Abdullah al-Qifari from the contemporary Wahhabi scholars to attempt to depict a false and fabricator figure of Jabir in the Book Usul al-madhhab al-Shi’a, and cast doubt about the hadiths narrated from him in Shia hadith resources. This paper, by examining the textual and documentary evidences of Qifari on Jabir Ju’fi's case, shows that Qifari’s claims are not true and that Jabir is free from the accusations (such as discrediting narrations, mixing, insanity, magic, and illusion). The document of all the narratives cited by Qifari concerning insanity, magic, and illusion of Jabir is weak and some narratives have also textual weakness. His document about Jabir's mixing is ​​also flawed and unreliable.