فصلنامه علوم حدیث
سال یازدهم شماره 3 (پیاپی 41، پاییز 1385)

This paper aims at clarifying the meaning of a hadith whis has bee related by the holy Prophet, Imam Ali, Imam Baqir, and Imam Sadiq, peace be upon them, that Zarbu al-Quran bil Quran Kufr. Some assumed that this hadith points to the interpretation of a Quranic verse with utilization of other verses. On the other hand this sentence is considered as an idiom belonging to the age of Imams and is different from what is shown by literal meaning. Collecting semantic evidence and facts, the author of the present paper views this hadith from different perspectives and finally comes up with a conclusion and retells the related semantic proofs. It is also shown that how investigation of hadiths thematically provides a comprehensive understanding of the reasons for the issuance of hadiths.

Medical issues form a considerable part of Islamic Hadith. Shiite and Sunni Hadith scholars from the first periods of compilation tried to compile these hadiths as independent works or by other issues. The quality of dealing with these hadiths was the concern of the Muslim traditionists and theologians from the past times. These concerns have increased in the present time. Author of this paper gives an account of hadith sources dealing with medical issues and explains about the methods used by scholars to verify these hadiths.

William Chitic is one of the great western scholars who have done many researches on Islamic mysticism. One of his important works is a translation of Sahiffa Sajjadia ascribed to Imam Zain al-Abidin from Arabic into English. The present paper is concerned with the introduction which has been written by William Chitic to his translation. Rendering a brief explanation about Imam Zayn al-Abidin and also clarifying the status of prayer and supplication, Chitic tries to make a brief and short historical discussion about documents and different versions of Sahifa. He also renders a content-wise structural analysis of supplications of Sahiffa. The interesting point of Chitic's analyses is that he deals with Sahiffa in a open way far from criticism usual with the western writers.

Different points of views have been presented about the Prophet's Companions. Summing up these views will lead us to three definitions which are dealt with in this paper. The author also makes a comparison between Mohammad Hadi Marefat's views and those of Ibn Hajar and then makes criticism of it.

Ahmad bn Ali bn Ahmad bn Abbas Najashi proficient at rijal science and the author of the first and most important Shiite rijal work namely Fihrist Asmai Musannaf al-Shiah (or al-Najashi's rijal). Although the author's aim was to list Shiite works and books, however there are useful information about the compilers of books, their classes, their race and genealogies and finally their academic status and authenticity of their works.Studying and evaluating the method used by Najashi, the author of this paper tries to display his efforts in providing general information about compilers and his method in presenting them.

Two basic source of Ziyarat Ashura are as follows: Ibn Quluyih's Kamil al-Ziyarat and Sheikh Tusi's Misbah al-Mutahajid. The present paper verifies the document of this Ziyara within two above-mentioned sources and reveals its depreciating and appreciating aspects and concludes that the third document in Tusi's Misbah al-Mutahajid is the most correct way of relating this narration. Although other ways are not void of mistakes but they can confirm and uphold this one.

Hadith in Islamic Tradition is recognized as an important source for fiqh (jurisprudence), akhlaq (ethics), tafsir (exegesis) and even history. But among the Orientalists and Western hadith scholars, it is viewed as the basic source to know the history of Islam especially the first centuries of Islam. To make the best use of this informational source they started studying its historical value, that is, which period these traditions are related and whom these narrations are historically scribed to. This issue has been view from another perspective by Muslim hadith scholars namely hadith text and document criticism and distinguishing unreliable and forged hadiths from authentic and reliable ones. Here the efforts made by Muslim and Western hadith scholars join together. The present paper is concerned with the busiest Netherlander hadith scholars, Gautiar Juynboll and describes his research achievements. To him, the main part of this historical information is hidden in the chain of documents which can be found by a special analytical method which is of his own innovation. The result obtained by this analytical method is the evaluation of historical reliability of documents and also approximate dating of Islamic hadith innovation and publication. Reviewing a set of narration as an example, the author of the present paper gives an introduction to the technical terms utilized by Juynboll and implements his analytical method concerning mentioned example to get theoretically familiar with this kind of research and find its result practically.

Razi ul-Din Ali b. Tawus Hasani is an influential Shi′i scholarin seventh century Al-Tashrif bil-Menan fil-Ta′rif bil-Fetan in the subject of malahim and fitan. This book is comprised from three Sunni hadith sources. In later ages, this book is regarded an authentic book about Madawiyya, but in this paper se would see that it is not authentic, nor about Mahdawiyya, and Ibn Tawus himself did not believe that the tradition included in, valuable and authentic.