Jadal al Madhhab

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   4. Inability to distinguish between authentic and fabricated The School’s narrative problems do not stop at the lies attributed to the Imams and the large number of false and fabricated narrations found in the leading books, whereby it could be overcome by probing and scrutinizing the authentic narrations from the weak and fabricated ones, then embarking on eradicating those narrations that were inserted […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   5. Destruction of Hadith sources that were compiled during the era of the Imams The Imamiyyah believe that there existed books compiled by the Imam’s companions that were directly dictated by them or directly by their students’ students. They named it al Usul al Arba’ami’ah (the Four Hundred Sources) and mention that these are the foremost compilations for the narrations of the Ahlul […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   6. Deficiency of the structure of the Imami fiqh’s legacy and the scarcity of its tools   An observer into the Imami narrative legacy will notice clear deficiencies in the Fiqhi legislations and derivation of rulings, despite the texts’ existence for a lengthy period of time and its continuation beyond the Imams of the four Mazhabs (Imam Abu Hanifah (d. 180 AH), Imam […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   7. Problems in applying rules of hadith and narrators on the Shia School’s narrations   The science of isnad[1] and narrations is a distinguished characteristic of the Ummah of the Prophet salla Llahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, which was not bestowed to any other nation. Allah subhanahu wa ta ‘ala has honored and favored this Ummah with isnad. None of the other nations, old […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   8. Disorder and confusion in the standards of Jarh and Ta’dil (hadith narrator criticism)   Their authentications and the weakening of narrators lack established and solid criterion that can be relied upon when judging narrators and distinguishing trustworthy ones from weak ones. The former Imamis and their latter ones did not agree on the ceiling of exaggeration and its meaning. Therefore, what some […]