Deficiencies of a Text about Fadl bn Shadhan Nayshaboori's Life

Without doubt Fadl bn Shadhan is one of the great faqihs (jurisprudents) and theologians who have innovated and brought about new thoughts. He died in the last decades of second century two months before Imam Hasan Askari's martyrdom in 260 AH. He was contemporary of four Infallible Imams namely Imam Rida, Imam Jawad, Imam Hadi, and Imam Hasan Askari. He played a great role in transmitting Shiite heritage and in order to safeguard it, he has written 180 books. The Encyclopedia of Shia which is a product of studies on Islamic teachings and culture in recent years deals with this great scholar within a half-page. Unfortunately it indicates that this research has not thoroughly done as it is expected. The author of the present paper comes up with deficiencies of this half-page biography of this great scholar with the hope of improvement in latter editions.