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...

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...

Experts in criticism and amendment have criticized some narrators of hadith because of some attributes, special moral traits or particular convictions. Belief in exaggeration and authorization is one of the factors which the narrators in earlier sources of transmitters of hadith have considered blameworthy. This phenomenon was widespread among the transmitters of the hadith of the Imams in th...

Experts in criticism and amendment have criticized some narrators of hadith because of some attributes, special moral traits or particular convictions. Belief in exaggeration and authorization is one of the factors which the narrators in earlier sources of transmitters of hadith have considered blameworthy. This phenomenon was widespread among the transmitters of the hadith of the Imams in 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...

One of the major concerns of the scholars of hadith is the important question of fabricating and inventing hadith. Of the reasons and motives behind fabricating hadith different views have been expressed. “Freethinking” as one of the destructive and influential movements in Islam has been the centre of attraction for the students of hadith. Nevertheless, the terms free thinking and free think...