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

[1/203] غيبة الطوسي: باسناده عن أحمد بن محمد بن عيسى، عن سعد بن سعد، عن أحمد بن عمر قال: سمعت الرضا عليه السلام يقول في ابن أبي حمزة: أليس هو الذي يروى أن … وقال: إن أبا إبراهيم عليه السلام يعود إلى ثمانية أشهر! فما استبان لهم كذبه؟!

1. [1/203] Ghayba of al-Tusi: Via his chain to Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Isa from Sa`d b. Sa`d from Ahmad b. Umar who said: I heard al-Ridha عليه السلام saying about Ibn Abi Hamza: isn’t he the one who narrates that … and he [Ibn Abi Hamza] also said: Aba Ibrahim [al-Kadhim] عليه السلام will return within eight months! has his lies not become apparent to you!? 

[2/204] رجال الكشي: محمد بن مسعود، عن أبو الحسن علي بن الحسن بن فضال قال: علي بن أبي حمزة كذاب متهم و روى أصحابنا أن أبا الحسن الرضا عليه السلام قال بعد موت ابن أبي حمزة: إنه أقعد في قبره فسئل عن الأئمة عليهم السلام فأخبر بأسمائهم حتى انتهى إلي فسئل فوقف، فضرب على رأسه ضربة امتلأ قبره نارا

2. [2/204] Rijal al-Kashshi: Muhammad b. Masud from Abu al-Hasan Ali b. al-Hasan b. Fadhal who said: Ali b. Abi Hamza was an accused liar. Our companions narrated from Aba al-Hasan al-Ridha عليه السلام that he [the Imam] said after the death of Ibn Abi Hamza: He [Ibn Abi Hamza] was made to sit in his grave and asked about the `Aimma, he named them one after the other until he reached my name, when he was asked about it he stopped [did not name it], so he was hit on his head a single blow which caused the whole grave to be engulfed with fire.

[3/205] رجال الكشي: حمدويه، عن الحسن بن موسى، عن داود بن محمد، عن أحمد بن محمد قال: وقف أبو الحسن عليه السلام في بني زريق فقال لي و هو رافع صوته: يا أحمد قلت: لبيك قال: إنه لما قبض رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم جهد الناس في إطفاء نور الله فأبى الله إلا أن يتم نوره بأمير المؤمنين عليه السلام فلما توفي أبو الحسن عليه السلام جهد علي بن أبي حمزة و أصحابه في إطفاء نور الله فأبى الله إلا أن يتم نوره، و إن أهل الحق إذا دخل فيهم داخل سروا به، و إذا خرج منهم خارج لم يجزعوا عليه، و ذلك أنهم على يقين من أمرهم، و إن أهل الباطل إذا دخل فيهم داخل سروا به، و إذا خرج منهم خارج جزعوا عليه، و ذلك أنهم على شك من أمرهم، إن الله جل جلاله يقول: فَمُسْتَقَرٌّ وَ مُسْتَوْدَعٌ، ثم قال: قال أبو عبد الله عليه السلام: المستقر الثابت و المستودع المعار

3. [3/205] Rijal al-Kashshi: Hamduwayh from al-Hasan b. Musa from Dawud b. Muhammad from Ahmad b. Muhammad who said: Abu al-Hasan [al-Ridha] عليه السلام stood at the place of Bani Zurayq [in Madina] and said to me whilst having raised his voice: O Ahmad, I said: at your service, he said: when the messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم passed away the people strove to extinguish the light of Allah but Allah refused anything but to perfect His light through the Commander of the Faithful عليه السلام. Similarly, when Abu al-Hasan [al-Kadhim] عليه السلام passed away Ali b. Abi Hamza and his fellows strove to extinguish the light of Allah but Allah refused anything but to perfect His light. When a person joins the people of truth they get delighted because of him, but when he leaves them they do not feel sad because of him [leaving], that is because they are sure of their affair [the truth of their religion], however, when a person joins the people of falsehood they get delighted because of him, and when he leaves them they are grieved because of him, that is because they are in doubt about their affair. Allah Majestic is His Majesty says: “an enduring abode and a place of temporary lodging” (6:98), then he [the Imam] said: Abu Abdillah عليه السلام said: the enduring abode is the established [constant faith] while the temporary lodging is the rented out [faith which will not last].

[4/206] عيون اخبار الرضا: ابن المتوكل، عن محمد العطار، عن ابن عيسى، عن الحسن بن علي الخزاز قال: خرجنا إلى مكة ومعنا علي بن أبي حمزة ومعه مال ومتاع فقلنا: ماهذا؟ قال: للعبد الصالح عليه السلام أمرني أن أحمله إلى علي ابنه عليه السلام وقد أوصى إليه

4. [4/206] Uyun Akhbar al-Ridha: Ibn al-Mutawakkil from Muhammad al-Attar from Ibn Isa from al-Hasan b. Ali al-Khazzaz who said: we came out heading towards Makka together with Ali b. Abi Hamza and he had with him some wealth and possessions, we said: what is this? he said: they belong to the Righteous Servant عليه السلام, he ordered me to hand them over to his son Ali عليه السلام and has made a testament in his favour.

[-/5] غيبة النعماني: محمد بن عبدالله بن جعفر الحميري، عن أبيه، عن محمد بن عيسى بن عبيد بن يقطين، عن النضر بن سويد، عن يحيى الحلبي، عن علي بن أبي حمزة قال: كنت مع أبي بصير، ومعنا مولى لابي جعفر الباقر عليه السلام فقال: سمعت أبا جعفر عليه السلام يقول: منا اثنا عشر محدثا السابع من ولدي القائم، فقام إليه أبوبصير فقال: أشهد أني سمعت أبا جعفر عليه السلام يقوله منذ أربعين سنة

5. [5/-] Ghayba of al-Nu`mani: Muhammad b. Abdallah b. Ja`far al-Himyari from his father from Muhammad b. Isa b. Ubayd b. Yaqtin from al-Nadhr b. Suwayd from Yahya al-Halabi from Ali b. Abi Hamza who said: I was with Abi Basir and there was a freed-slave of Abi Ja`far al-Baqir عليه السلام with us, so he [the freed-slave] said: I heard Aba Ja`far عليه السلام saying: from us are twelve Muhadath, the seventh of my descendants is the Qaim. So Abu Basir stood up facing him and said: I bear witness that I heard Abi Ja`far عليه السلام saying that forty years ago. 

Muʿjam al-Aḥādīth al-Muʿtabara

Book 3, Chapter 65