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BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   Study of the Origins of the Rib-Breaking Narrations and a Study of Their Limited Sources and Chains of Transmission   Some might imagine that the number of narrations regarding the breaking of the rib is large, based on what the abundance of narrations in this regard might suggest. However, what we have gathered in this study, specifically the narrations that explicitly mention the […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   Report on the Weakness of All Chains of Transmission for the Narrations on the Breaking of the Rib   Anyone who studies the narrations regarding the story of the breaking of the rib and applies the Imami standards of evaluating narrations must inevitably conclude that these narrations are weak. This is exactly what a group of Imami scholars have done. The jurist Muhammad […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   Attempting to Avoid Proving the Story of the Broken Rib with Authentic Chains of Narration   Due to the weakness of these narrations, the supporters of this theory resorted to a curious response, which is that proving the authenticity of the story of the broken rib does not require authentic chains of narration. Jafar Murtada says:   إنه ليس من حق أحد أن […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   The Claim of Consensus on the Breaking of the Rib: Jafar Murtada al ‘Amili[1] and others[2] have claimed that there is consensus on the incident of the broken rib. Their evidence for this claim is the statement of al Tusi:   والمشهور الذي لا خلاف فيه بين الشيعة أن عمر ضرب على بطنها حتى أسقطت فسمى السقط محسنًا ورواية الشيعة مستفيضة به لا […]

BACK⇒ Return to Table of contents   General notes on the contents of the rib-breaking narrations   The problems of the rib-breaking narrations are not limited to their weak chains and their texts that testify to their fabrication and invention, as we have explained in detail. Rather, there are many other problems in these narrations, some of which relate to the contradiction and conflict between these narrations themselves and some […]