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

[1573/1] توحيد الصدوق واماليه: أبي، عن سعد، عن اليقطيني قال: كتب أبو الحسن الثالث عليه السلام إلى بعض شيعته ببغداد: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم، عصمنا الله وإياك من الفتنة، فان يفعل فأعظم بها نعمة، وإلا يفعل فهي الهلكة، نحن نرى أن الجدال في القرآن بدعة، اشترك فيها السائل والمجيب، فتعاطى السائل ما ليس له وتكلف المجيب ما ليس عليه، وليس الخالق إلا الله، وما سواه مخلوق، والقرآن كلام الله، لا تجعل له اسما من عندك، فتكون من الضالين، جعلنا الله وإياك من الذين يخشون ربهم بالغيب، وهم من الساعة مشفقون

[1/1573] Tawhid of al-Saduq and his Amali: My father from Sa’d from al-Yaqtini who said: Abu al-Hasan the Third (i.e. al-Hadi) عليه السلام wrote to one of his Shia in Baghdad:  In the Name of Allah the Beneficent the Merciful. May Allah protect us and you from the Fitna (trial). If He does that then count it a great blessing, and if He does not then it is perdition!  We consider argumentation about the Qur’an to be a Bidʿa (innovation) in which both questioner and respondent have partaken. So the questioner (i.e. who asks about this) has engaged in what is not for him (i.e. his concern) and the respondent has borne what is not on him (i.e. his responsibility to bear).  There is no creator except Allah, and what is other than Him is created. The Qur’an is the Speech of Allah. Do not coin a word for it from yourself so you will become among the astray. May Allah make us and you of those who “fear their Lord without seeing Him and are of the Hour - apprehensive” (21:49)

[1574/2] توحيد الصدوق واماليه: ابن مسرور، عن محمد الحميري، عن أبيه، عن ابن هاشم، عن الريان قال: قلت للرضا عليه السلام: ما تقول في القرآن؟ فقال: كلام الله، لا تتجاوزوه ولا تطلبوا الهدى في غيره فتضلوا

[2/1574] Tawhid of al-Saduq and his Amali: Ibn Masrur from Muhammad al-Himyari from his father from Ibn Hashim from al-Rayyan who said: I said to al-Ridha عليه السلام: What do you say about the Qur’an? He said: The Speech of Allah. Do not go beyond it nor search for guidance in other than it - for you will be led astray

[1575/3] رجال الكشي: حمدويه و إبراهيم، قالا حدثنا محمد بن عيسى، قال حدثني هشام المشرقي إنه دخل على أبي الحسن الخراساني عليه السلام فقال: إن أهل البصرة سألوا عن الكلام، فقالوا: إن يونس يقول إن الكلام ليس بمخلوق فقلت لهم: صدق يونس إن الكلام ليس بمخلوق، أما بلغكم قول أبي جعفر عليه السلام حين سئل عن القرآن أخالق هو أو مخلوق؟ فقال لهم ليس بخالق و لا مخلوق إنما هو كلام الخالق، فقويت أمر يونس، و قالوا: إن يونس يقول إن من السنة أن يصلي الإنسان ركعتين و هو جالس بعد العتمة؟ فقلت: صدق يونس

[3/1575] Rijal al-Kashshi: Hamduwayh and Ibrahim from Muhammad b. Isa from Hisham al-Mashriqi that he (i.e. Hisham) entered in to see Abi al-Hasan al-Khurasani (a.s.) who said: The people of Basra inquired about Divine Speech and said ‘Yūnus says that Divine Speech is not created!’ I said to them: ’Yūnus has spoken the truth, Divine Speech is not created. Has the statement of Abī Jaʿfar (a.s.) not reached you when he was asked about the Qur’an ‘is it a creator or created?’ He said to them: ’It is neither a creator nor created, rather it is the Speech of the Creator.’  Thus I strengthened the position of Yūnus. They (i.e. the people of Basra) also said ‘Yūnus says that it is from the Sunnah for a man to pray two units while seated after the final night prayer (i.e. ʿIshāʾ)’. I said: Yūnus has spoken the truth.

Muʿjam al-Aḥādīth al-Muʿtabara

Book 5, Chapter 12