نشریه حدیث حوزه
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This article deals with teaching licenses issued by Alama Majlisi. Luckily a great number of these licenses have been verified and are available now. They are over 200 licenses. the author of this article verifies 16 teaching licenses with their full texts. These licenses contain name of students, textbooks, date of issue which are of high importance in the history of hadith development. These licenses indicate that Allama Majlisi has spent most of his time (more than fifty years) on teaching hadith books especially the Four Books (al-Kafi, Tahdhib al-Ahkam, al-Istibsar, and Man La Yahduruh al-Faqih)

Since language is a social phenomenon and evolves over time, it is natural that some words in use today were not in use in the past and those in use in the past are worn out in the present day.Since religious texts (viz. the Holy Quran and Hadith) are in Arabic and revealed in a specific period of time, thus it is necessary to study the impact of language evolution on our understanding of these texts. Here is a question: Is it right to interpret them according to their present meaning or according to the time of their issuance.There are important results for this discussion theoretically and practically which reflect on jurisprudential and theological fields. If our understanding of the Holy Quran and hadith is based on wrong assumption how can we depict a true picture of Islam? That is why the present discussion is of such a very high importance.

In order to demonstrate the impact of hadith family on full comprehension of a moral concept, the author of this paper makes a comparative study between hadiths concerning hilm (clemency) in Nahj al-Balagha and hadiths with the same topic in other hadith sources. In fact he tries to prove that utilizing other hadith sources when investigating a hadith is a must and we should not be content with the very first conception of a hadith.

Muhammad bn Ahmad bn Yahya is a hadith teacher of the third century A.H. He is the author of Nawdir al-Hikmah which is regarded as a hadith collection. Muhammad bn Hhasan bn Walid has implicitly accepted the trustworthiness of more than 500 direct teachers of Muhammad bn Ahmad (with a few exceptions). Some prominent scholars like Abu al-Abbas bn Nuh, Shaykh Saduq, Najashi and Shaykh Tusi have also accepted this authentication.

Infallibility of Prophets and Imams is one of the important and controversial discussions amongst Muslim scholars. The prominent scholar of Shia, Sayyid Murtada `Alam al-Huda wrote a book under the title of Tanzih al-Anbiya wa al-A`immah in order to answer some dubious questions concerning the Infallibility of Prophets and Imams. The author of the present article makes a descriptive analysis of the above mentioned book. He first gives a brief account of Sayyid Murtada's life and personality as well as his views on a variety of Islamic sciences. After some introductory discussions such as motivation for writing, authenticity of attributing this book to Sayyid Murtada, date of compilation, he deals with his writing style and way of answering the dubious questions concerning the Infallibility of Prophets and Imams.

Despite the fact that some of the works of great Shii scholars have been destroyed during some tragic events, yet some passages from them have been cited in the books compiled by Sunni scholars. One of these works is a rijali book compiled by Ali bn Hakam a great scholar of Halab in the sixth century A.H. some parts of it have been cited in Ibn Hajar `Asqalani's Lisan al-Mizan. Some bibliographers have mistakenly ascribed it to a 261 scholar with the same name in the third century A.H.in the present paper, the author tries to prove his claim and reconstruct this rijal work so that more scientific heritages of Shia in Halab are brought to light.

Shiite hadith books are precious heritages which have preserved words of the Infallible Imams in all fields of faith and life. One of these precious heritages is Jami` al-Ahadith (Collection of Hadiths). The author of this article tries to present a picture of the compiler of Jami` al-Ahadith along with an explanation of its characteristics. He holds that this book is the first Shiite compilation of Prophetic hadiths in alphabetical order which its hadiths are not restricted to a specific topic.

The present paper is concerned with hadith sciences. The author first gives a brief account of related sciences such as knowledge of rijal (chain of authorities), hadith scholarship, hadith terminology, history of hadith, source analysis and etc. He then comes up with their definitions along with an explanation of their associated fields and finally deals with the most important issues concerning these disciplines.