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

[1/208] رجال الكشي: محمد بن مسعود، عن محمد بن نصير، عن محمد بن عيسى، عن محمد بن أبي عمير، عن عبد الرحمن بن الحجاج قال: قلت لأبي الحسن عليه السلام: إن علي بن يقطين أرسلني إليك برسالة أسألك الدعاء له فقال: في أمر الآخرة؟ قلت: نعم قال: فوضع يده على صدره، ثم قال: ضمنت لعلي بن يقطين ألا تمسه النار أبدا

1. [1/208] Rijal al-Kashshi: Muhammad b. Masud from Muhammad b. Nusayr from Muhammad b. Isa from Muhammad b. Abi Umayr from Abd al-Rahman b. al-Hajjaj who said: I said to Abi al-Hasan عليه السلام: Ali b. Yaqtin has sent me to you with a message – he asks that you supplicate for him, he [the Imam] said: concerning the hereafter? I said: yes, so he [the Imam] put his hand on his chest and then said: I guarantee for Ali b. Yaqtin that the fire will never touch him – ever.

[2/209] رجال الكشي: محمد بن مسعود، عن محمد بن عيسى، عن الحسن بن محبوب، عن عبد الرحمن بن الحجاج قال: خرجت عاما من الأعوام و معي مال كثير لأبي إبراهيم عليه السلام، و أودعني علي بن يقطين رسالة سأله الدعاء، فلما فرغت من حوائجي و أوصلت المال إليه قلت: جعلت فداك سألني علي بن يقطين أن تدعو الله له فقال: للآخرة؟ قلت: نعم، قال: فوضع يده على صدره ثم قال: ضمنت لعلي بن يقطين ألا تمسه النار

2. [2/209] Rijal al-Kashshi: Muhammad b. Masud from Muhammad b. Isa from al-Hasan b. Mahbub from Abd al-Rahman b. al-Hajjaj who said: I came out one year with a lot of wealth belonging to Abu Ibrahim عليه السلام [in my possession]. Ali b. Yaqtin had also entrusted me with a message asking his [the Imam’s] supplication, so when I finished attending to my duties and handed over the wealth to him – I said: may I be made your ransom, Ali b. Yaqtin requested me to ask you to supplicate for him, he عليه السلام asked: for the hereafter? I said: yes, so he [the Imam] put his hand on his chest and then said: I guarantee for Ali b. Yaqtin that the fire will never touch him.

[3/210] رجال الكشي: محمد بن مسعود، عن محمد بن نصير و جبريل بن أحمد، عن محمد بن عيسى، عن يعقوب بن يقطين قال: سمعت أبا الحسن الخراساني عليه السلام يقول: أما إن علي بن يقطين مضى و صاحبه عنه راض يعني أبا الحسن عليه السلام

3. [3/210] Rijal al-Kashshi: Muhammad b. Masud from Muhammad b. Nusayr and Jibril b. Ahmad from Muhammad b. Isa from Yaqub b. Yaqtin who said: I heard Abu al-Hasan al-Khurasani [al-Ridha] عليه السلام say: as for Ali b. Yaqtin then he left [this world] while his master was pleased with him – meaning by that Abu al-Hasan (i.e. al-Kadhim) عليه السلام

[4/211] رجال الكشي: حمدويه، عن محمد بن عيسى، عن يونس بن عبد الرحمن قال: قال أبو الحسن عليه السلام: من سعادة علي بن يقطين أني ذكرته في الموقف

4. [4/211] Rijal al-Kashshi: Hamduwayh from Muhammad b. Isa from Yunus b. Abd al-Rahman who said: Abu al-Hasan عليه السلام said: of the felicities enjoyed by Ali b. Yaqtin is the fact that I remembered him [supplicated for him] at the Mawqif [the plains of Arafa in the Hajj].

[5/212] رجال الكشي: حمدويه وابراهيم، عن أبو جعفر، عن الحسن بن علي: أن أباه علي بن يقطين رحمه الله وجه الى جواريه حتى حمل حباءهن ممن باعه، فوجه اليه بما فرض عليه من مهورهن وزاد ثلاثة آلاف دينار للوليمة، فبلغ ذلك ثلاثة عشر ألف دينار في دفعة واحدة

5. [5/212] Rijal al-Kashshi: Hamduwayh and Ibrahim from Abu Ja`far from al-Hasan b. Ali that: his father Ali b. Yaqtin – may Allah have mercy on him – sent to his female slaves [to hand over to him whatever they possessed of wealth] such that he even carried away their gifts [given to them] by the one who sold them to him [their former master], then he sent to him [al-Kadhim] what he [the Imam] had enjoined on him of [collecting] their [al-Kadhim’s sons’ prospective wives’] dowries, and he added three thousand gold coins for the Walima [public lunch], so it all came to thirteen thousand gold coins in a single installment. 

[6/213] الكافي: علي بن إبراهيم، عن أبيه، عن ابن أبي عمير، عن علي بن يقطين، عن أبي الحسن موسى عليه السلام قال: قلت له: إني قد أشفقت من دعوة أبي عبد الله عليه السلام على يقطين وما ولد، فقال: يا أبا الحسن ليس حيث تذهب، إنما المؤمن في صلب الكافر بمنزلة الحصاة في اللبنة يجي المطر فيغسل اللبنة ولا يضر الحصاة شيئا

6. [6/213] al-Kafi: Ali b. Ibrahim from his father from Ibn Abi Umayr from Ali b. Yaqtin from Abi al-Hasan Musa عليه السلام. He [Ali b. Yaqtin] said: I said to him: I am fearful because of the supplication of Abi Abdillah عليه السلام against Yaqtin and his off-spring, so he [the Imam] said: O Aba al-Hasan [Ali b. Yaqtin] it is not as you think, verily the believer who arises from the back-bone [lineage] of a disbeliever is like the stone in a clay brick, when rain comes it washes away the clay [dissolves it to mud] but does not harm the stone in any way. 

Muʿjam al-Aḥādīth al-Muʿtabara

Book 3, Chapter 68