Submission of Intellect and its Excellence

Sign of Perfection of Intellect

Merit of Knowledge and the Scholar and the Obligation of Knowledge

Reward of the Scholar and the Seeker of Knowledge

Attributes of the Scholar

Asking the Scholar and Discussing with Him

Prohibition on Speaking without Knowledge and Ruling based on Opinion

Accountability of the Scholar and its Severity

Miscellaneous from the Book of Intellect and Knowledge‎

Transmitting the Narration Non-Verbatim

Prohibition of Blind Following

Regarding Innovation and Analogical Reasoning

Ruling of Everything is in the Book and the Sunna

Prohibition on Debate and Argumentation

Some of the Reasons for Differences in the Narrations

Fitting Response Appropriate to the Understanding of the Questioner and the Addressee

No Excuse for the Ignorant One who Falls Short

Narration that Contradicts the Qur’an

Prohibition of Giving Fatwa without Knowledge and Evidence

Everything has a Ruling in the Book and the Sunna

Permanence of the Halal and the Haram unto the Day of Judgment

What Can be Used to Infer some General Principles

Authoritativeness of the Book and the Sunna

Principle of Precaution

Authoritativeness of the Solitary Report of a Truthful Narrator

Principle of “Whomsoever it reaches …”

Necessity of Comparing the Hadith with the Qur’an

Judging Conflict between Narrations

Reasons for Differences between Narrations

Invalidation of Analogical Reasoning

Primary Doubts

Principle of Continuity

Legal Injunctions are Predicated on Pubescence

Principle of ’No Harm’

Ijtihad

Lapsing of both Injunctive and Declaratory Rulings in Cases of Necessity

Some Rulings which are Time-Bound

Precedence is Given to what has been Established by the Qur’an over the Sunna

One of the Reasons for Differences between Narrations

Principle of Impartiality

What has been Lifted from the Umma

Aban b. Taghlib

Ibrahim b. Abi Mahmud

Ibrahim b. Abda

Ahmad b. Hammad al-Marwazi and his son Muhammad

Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Abi Nasr al-Bazanti

Usama b. Zayd

Ishaq b. Ammar

Ismail b. Ja`far and Abdallah b. Sharik

Bazi`, al-Sarri, Bashshar and Bayan

Bukayr

al-Hakam, Salama, Kathir, Salim and Abu al-Miqdam

Abu Sasan, Ammar, Shatira and Abu Amra

Jabir b. Abdallah al-Ansari and Jabir b. Yazid al-Ju`fi

al-Ash`ath, Jarir and Simak

Ja`far b. Isa, Salih and Abu al-Asad

al-Harith b. al-Mughira

Hariz and Hudhayfa

Hasan al-Muthalath

Abu Ali b. Rashid and Ali b. al-Husayn b. Abd Rabbi

al-Hasan and al-Husayn the two sons of Zurara

al-Husayn b. Qayama

al-Husayn b. Mihran

al-Hakam b. Utayba

Hammad b. Isa

Humran b. A`yan

Hamza b. Bazi`

Hayyan al-Sarraj

Khuzayma b. Thabit

Khayran al-Khadim

Dawud b. Farqad and Harun b. Sa`d

Dharih b. Muhammad al-Muharibi

al-Rayyan b. al-Salt

Zurara b. A`yan

Zakariyya b. Sabur

Ziyad b. Marwan al-Qandi

Ziyad b. al-Mundhir Abu al-Jarud

Zayd b. Ali

Salim b. Mukram

Sukayn al-Nakhai

Simak b. Kharasha

Sahl b. Hunayf

Salih b. Muhammad b. Sahl

Sa`sa`a b. Suhan

Safwan b. Mihran al-Jammal

Safwan b. Yahya

Dhurays b. Abd al-Malik

A`sim b. Umar al-Bajali and Ka`b al-Ahbar

`Amir b. Wathila

`Abbad al-Basri

Abd al-Hamid b. Salim and Muhammad b. Ismail b. Bazi`

Abd al-Khaliq b. Abd Rabbi

Abdallah b. Abi Ya`fur

Abdallah b. al-Imam al-Sadiq

Abdallah b. Jundab

Abdallah b. al-Hasan b. al-Hasan al-Mujtaba

Abdallah b. Saba

Abdallah b. Shubruma

Abdallah b. Ajlan and Muyassir b. Abd al-Aziz

Abdallah b. Umayr al-Laythi

[1/46] الكافي: محمد بن يحيى، عن أحمد بن محمد بن عيسى، عن أحمد بن محمد بن أبي نصر، عن حماد بن عثمان، عن أبي عبدالله عليه السلام قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله: نعم وزير الايمان العلم، ونعم وزير العلم الحلم، ونعم وزير الحلم الرفق، ونعم وزير الرفق الصبر

1. [1/46] al-Kafi: Muhammad b. Yahya from Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Isa from Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Abi Nasr from Hammad b. Uthman from Abi Abdillah عليه السلام who said: the messenger of Allāh صلى الله عليه وآله said: the best assistant to faith is knowledge and the best assistant to knowledge is forbearance and the best assistant to forbearance is compassion and the best assistant to compassion is patience.

[2/47] الكافي: محمد بن يحيى، عن أحمد بن محمد بن عيسى، عن معمر بن خلاد قال: سمعت أبا الحسن الرضا عليه السلام يقول: ليس العبادة كثرة الصلاة والصوم، إنما العبادة التفكر في أمر الله عزوجل

2. [2/47] al-Kafi: Muhammad b. Yahya from Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Isa from Muammar b. Khallad who said: I heard Aba al-Hasan al-Ridha عليه السلام saying: worship is not excessive prayers or fasting, worship is reflecting over the affair of Allāh Mighty and Majestic.

[3/48] الكافي: محمد بن يحيى، عن أحمد بن محمد بن عيسى، عن الحسن بن علي بن فضال عن ابن بكير، عن عبيد بن زرارة قال: قال أبوعبدالله عليه السلام: احتفظوا بكتبكم فإنكم سوف تحتاجون إليها

3. [3/48] al-Kafi: Muhammad b. Yahya from Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Isa from al-Hasan b. Ali b. Fadhal from Ibn Bukayr from Ubayd b. Zurara who said: Abu Abdillah عليه السلام said: preserve your books for you are going to have need of them.

[4/49] الكافي: محمد بن يحيى، عن أحمد بن محمد بن عيسى، عن أحمد بن محمد بن أبي نصر، عن جميل بن دراج قال: قال أبو عبدالله عليه السلام: أعربوا حديثنا فانا قوم فصحاء

4. [4/49] al-Kafi: Muhammad b. Yahya from Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Isa from Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Abi Nasr from Jamil b. Darraj who said: Abu Abdillah عليه السلام said: Arabize our narrations for we are an eloquent people.

[5/50] الخصال: عن أبيه، عن سعد، عن البرقي، عن الحسن بن علي بن فضال، عن ثعلبة، عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلام قال: الرجال ثلاثة: رجل بماله، ورجل بجاهه، ورجل بلسانه، وهو أفضل الثلاثة

5. [5/50] al-Khisal: From my father from Sa’d from al-Barqi from al-Hasan b. Ali b. Fadhal from Tha’laba from Abi Abdillah عليه السلام who said: men are of three kinds: a man by his wealth, a man by his position, and a man by his tongue (good speaker), and he is the best of the three.

Muʿjam al-Aḥādīth al-Muʿtabara

Book 1, Chapter 9