Review of Imam Khomeini's View about Sheikh Sadouq's Mursalāt of Jurisprudence

The method of the Shi'ite and Sunnite Hadith scholars is to quote the narrations by naming the chain of transmitters. In the meantime, Sheikh Sadouq, one of the most prominent Shi'ite Hadith scholars, has reported the narrations in his book "Man lā yaḥḍuruhu-l-faqīh” with incomplete chain of transmitters (mursal). Although, later on, he tried to respond to the assumed critics with writing a "Mashikha", his Mursalāt that have been quoted without mentioning their narrators with such words like "qāla" or "ruviyah", has been controversial among the scholars. Those who believed in the authenticity of the sanad of the narrative abandoned all the hadiths of Sadouq without the narrator and those who believed in the authenticity of the issuing of the narrations considered them authentic. In the meantime, Imam Khomeini took a moderate view. The findings of this study indicated that from Imam Khomeini's point of view, firstly, only dogmatic Mursalāt of Sheikh Sadouq with the word "qāla" are authentic. Secondly, Sadouq is not only a Hadith scholar, but also is a scholar superior to Najjashi and Tousi. Therefore, his dogmatic Mursalāt indicate that the narrators removed from the sanad are authentic. Thirdly, Sadouq is not a mujtahid in its conventional meaning among the scholars of the principles of jurisprudence specifically the later ones. Therefore, he has not quoted the dogmatic mursalāt with guess and speculation. Fourthly, the dogmatic mursalāt of Sheikh Sadouq counterweights that of Ibn Abi  'Umayr. Fifth, not only his mursalāt are equal to his Masānid, but also they are preferred to them.