Hadith Typology of Sayyari's Al-Qiraat

Sayyari's al-Qiraat is one of the most important sources of altered traditions. Shiite scholars have come up with this book and its author while dealing with other traditions. The present paper studies it as an independent book. Traditions of this collection have been divided into four groups: exegesis, virtues and merits, rules and etiquettes of reading the Quran, and miscellaneous. According to this division, more than one third of traditions of this book are out of question. The other traditions do not indicate any alterations within the text of the Holy Quran for the following reasons: traditions are of exegetical genre; different readings of a single verse by an Imam; mentioning the verses of the Quran along with Imam's words; and etc.