Documentary Review of the Several Reports of Narration of the Tablet (Hadees-e-Lauh) by Jaabir

The Narration of the Tablet (Hadith-e-Lauh) narrated by Jabir is a famous narration that has been consecutively cited by Imamiyyah scholars in proving the Imamate of the twelve infallible Imams (a.s.). Despite this description, objections and doubts have been raised against this narration and some have even tried to deny it and called it as fabricated. This article aims at investigating the documentary status of this narrative. For this purpose, first, numerous reports of this narration were identified, and their chains of narrators were examined. Based on this, although some of the 9 reports and 22 chains of this narration are considered weak in terms of chain of narrators, in addition to the authenticity of some of these reports, many other evidence and proofs lend authenticity to this narration.