The Quranic Muqatta'a letters are one of the Quranic topics about which scholars expressed different viewpoints. Considering the interpretation of these letters and the intention of God, many various views have been mentioned. Some narrations are found to interpret these letters. For example, a hadith in Maani al-Akhbar of Sheikh Saduq has interpreted all these letters. This hadith is assumed t...

This article attempts to study a hadith attributed to Imam Hussein in which he says, "I have only risen to seek reformation." It tries to find that whether the content of hadith suggests reformation of religion or that of nation. The author has concluded that this hadith is neither authentic in its chain of transmission nor acceptable in its content. If one ignores inauthenticity of chain of tr...

One of the important issues in understanding hadith is to consider the defective traditions and distinguishing them from sounds traditions. Knowing defective traditions needs exact information and necessary expertise in the knowledge of hadith, and only the specialists in the science of hadith and scholars who are completely familiar with the documents and texts of traditions can distinguish th...

Nation (Ummah) imprecation Hadith belongs to Ashrat al-saah in which the imprecation of the early Islamic nations by the next generations is considered to be one of the causes of Muslims’ Involvement in the last time. The mentioned hadiths that have Sunni narrators have often been transmitted by Shiykh Saduq and Shiykh Tusi. Similarity of the words and sanad of Nation imprecation Hadith i...

In the process of hadith understanding, there is a need for an appropriate scientific approach; it is called "fiqh al-Hadith". Ignoring the principles of implications, thus, lead to mistakes in the understanding of the hadiths. In order to make the procedure of dealing with "fiqh al-Hadith" more comprehensive and up-to-date, Due to the kind of implications in hadiths. A ...

Robson, the English Orientalist, in the third volume of Encyclopedia of Islam, assigns a special entry to introducing hadith. In this entry he discusses such subject as the study of hadith as a word and as a technical term, the compilation of hadith, introducing the compendiums of hadith by the two sects, the critique of hadith, explaining the different kinds and degrees of true hadiths, defini...

Sheikh Nasir al-Din Albāni, is one of the most influential and prolific Sunni authors and a student of Hadith and a follower of the sect of Salafiah, who offered a new approach to textual criticism. He follows certain principles in editing and evaluating hadith and textual criticism. Albāni in the study of each hadith first looks for the text of hadith in reliable books and once he trust the ...

The hadith "Loving Ali is a good deed by which no evil action may harm"is a famous and diffused hadith that is of great importance due to the ties with Shia ideas and theology.This research is aimed atidentifying the chain of its transmission among the traditional sources and then, by access to documents and different ways of narration, studying its validation of the chain of transmis...