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

[1551/1] الكافي: علي، عن أبيه، عن حماد، عن حريز، عن أبي عبدالله عليه السلام قال: القرآن عهدالله إلى خلقه فقد ينبغي للمرء المسلم أن ينظر في عهده وأن يقرأ منه في كل يوم خمسين آية

[1/1551] al-Kafi: Ali from his father from Hammad from Hariz from Abi Abdillah عليه السلام who said: The Qur’an is the covenant of Allah to His creatures, it is incumbent therefore on a Muslim man to look into his covenant and that he recite fifty verses from it every day

[1552/2] التهذيب: محمد بن أحمد بن يحيى عن معاوية بن الحكيم عن معمر بن خلاد عن الرضا عليه السلام: قال سمعته يقول: ينبغي للرجل إذا أصبح ان يقرأ بعد التعقيب خمسين آية

[2/1552] al-Tahdhib: Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Yahya from Muawiya b. Hukaym from Mu’ammar b. Khallad from al-Ridha عليه السلام. He (Mu’ammar) said: I heard him (i.e. the Imam) saying: It is incumbent on a man when he wakes up (in the morning) that he recite after the Taʿqīb (post dawn-prayer supplications) fifty verses

[1553/3] الكافي: عدة من أصحابنا، عن أحمد بن محمد ; وسهل بن زياد ; وعلي بن إبراهيم عن أبيه، جميعا، عن ابن محبوب، عن جميل بن صالح، عن الفضيل بن يسار، عن أبي عبدالله عليه السلام قال: ما يمنع التاجر منكم المشغول في سوقه إذا رجع إلى منزله أن لا ينام حتى يقرأ سورة من القرآن فتكتب له مكان كل آية يقرؤها عشر حسنات ويمحى عنه عشر سيئات

[3/1553] al-Kafi: A number of our companions from Ahmad b. Muhammad and Sahl b. Ziyad; Ali b. Ibrahim from his father; all together from Ibn Mahbub from Jamil b. Salih from al-Fudhayl b. Yasar from Abi Abdillah عليه السلام who said: What prevents a merchant among you who is busy in his market-place that he does not sleep when he returns back to his home until he recites a Chapter from the Qur’an? So it will be written for him in place of every verse that he recites ten good-deeds and ten evil-deeds will be effaced for him .

[-/4] الكافي: محمد بن يحيى، عن محمد بن الحسين، عن علي بن النعمان، عن يعقوب بن شعيب، عن حسين بن خالد، عن أبي عبدالله عليه السلام قال: قلت له: في كم أقرأ القرآن؟ فقال: اقرءه أخماسا، اقرءه، أسباعا، أما إن عندي مصحفا مجزى أربعة عشر حزءا

[4/-] al-Kafi: Muhammad b. Yahya from Muhammad b. al-Husayn from Ali b. al-Nu’man from Ya’qub b. Shuayb from Husayn b. Khalid from Abi Abdillah عليه السلام. He (Husayn) said: I said to him: In how many (days) should I recite the (whole) Qur’an? He (i.e. the Imam) said: Recite it in fifths, recite it in sevenths, as for me then I have a codex divided into fourteen parts

[1554/5] الكافي: حميد بن زياد، عن الحسن بن محمد، عن أحمد بن الحسن الميثمي، عن يعقوب بن شعيب، عن أبي عبدالله عليه السلام قال: لما أمر الله عزوجل هذه الآيات أن يهبطن إلى الارض تعلقن بالعرش وقلن أي رب إلى أين تهبطنا إلى أهل الخطايا والذنوب فأوحى الله عزوجل إليهن: أن اهبطن فوعزتي وجلالي لا يتلوكن أحد من آل محمد وشيعتهم في دبر ما افترضت عليه من المكتوبة في كل يوم إلا نظرت إليه بعيني المكنونة في كل يوم سبعين نظرة أقضي له في كل نظرة سبعين حاجة وقبلته على ما فيه من المعاصي وهي ام الكتاب و شَهِدَ اللَّهُ أَنَّهُ لَا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ وَالْمَلَائِكَةُ وَأُولُو الْعِلْمِ وآية الكرسي وآيه الملك

[5/1554] al-Kafi: Humayd b. Ziyad from al-Hasan b. Muhammad from Ahmad b. al-Hasan al-Maythami from Ya’qub b. Shuayb from Abi Abdillah عليه السلام who said: When Allah Mighty and Majestic ordered these verses to go down to the Earth they attached themselves to the Throne and said: ‘O Lord - where are you sending us down to? To the people of mistakes and sins?!’  So Allah Mighty and Majestic revealed to them: ‘Go down - for by My Might and Majesty - no one from the Family of Muḥammad and their Shīʿa (followers) will recite you at the end of what I have obligated on him of the Maktūba (obligatory prayers) every day except that I will glance at him with my Hidden Eye, in every day seventy glances, I fulfill for him in each glance seventy wishes and accept him despite what he has of sins’.  They (the verses) are: Umm al-Kitāb (The Mother of the Book), “Allah witnesses that there is no God except Himself, (so do) the angels, and the possessors of Knowledge …” (3:18), Āyat al-Kursī (The Verse of the Chair), and Āyat al-Mulk (The Verse of the Kingdom)

[1555/6] الكافي: أبوعلي الاشعري، عن محمد بن عبدالجبار، عن صفوان بن يحيى، عن يعقوب بن شعيب، عن أبي عبدالله عليه السلام قال: كان أبي صلوات الله عليه يقول: قل هو الله أحد ثلث القرآن وقل يا أيها الكافرون ربع القرآن

[6/1555] al-Kafi: Abu Ali al-Ash’ari from Muhammad b. Abd al-Jabbar from Safwan b. Yahya from Ya’qub b. Shuayb from Abi Abdillah عليه السلام who said: My father صلوات الله عليه used to say: Qul Huwa l-Llāhu Aḥad is a third of the Qur’an, and, Qul Yā Ayyuhā l-Kāfirūn is a fourth of the Qur’an

[1556/7] الكافي: محمد بن يحيى، عن أحمد بن محمد بن عيسى، عن محمد بن خالد والحسين بن سعيد، جميعا، عن النضر بن سويد، عن يحيى الحلبي، عن أبي أسامة قال: سمعت أبا عبدالله عليه السلام يقول: من قرأ قل هو الله أحد مائة مرة حين يأخذ مضجعه غفر له ما عمل قبل ذلك خمسين عاما  وقال يحيى: فسألت سماعة عن ذلك فقال: حدثني أبوبصير قال: سمعت أبا عبدالله عليه السلام يقول ذلك ; وقال: يا أبا محمد أما إنك إن جربته وجدته سديدا

[7/1556] al-Kafi: Muhammad b. Yahya from Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Isa from Muhammad b. Khalid and al-Husayn b. Sa’id all together from al-Nadhr b. Suwayd from Yahya al-Halabi from Abi Usama who said: I heard Aba Abdillah عليه السلام say: Whoever recites Qul Huwa l-Llāhu Aḥad a hundred times when he betakes himself to his bed-spread (i.e. before sleeping) - it is forgiven for him what he has committed (of sins) fifty years prior to that. Yahya said: I asked Sama’a about that, so he (i.e. Sama’a) said: Abu Basir narrated (it) to me and said ‘I heard Aba Abdillah saying that’ and he (i.e. the Imam) added: O Aba Muhammad (i.e. Abu Basir) indeed if you were to try it you will find it to be true .

[1557/8] الكافي: محمد بن يحيى، عن أحمد بن محمد، عن الحسن بن علي، عن إسحاق بن عمار، عن أبي عبدالله عليه السلام قال: من قرأ مائة آية يصلي بها في ليلة كتب الله عز وجل له بها قنوت ليلة ومن قرأ مائتي آية في غير صلاة لم يحاجه القرآن يوم القيامة ومن قرأ خمسمائة آية في يوم وليلة في صلاة النهار والليل كتب الله عز وجل له في اللوح المحفوظ قنطارا من الحسنات والقنطار ألف ومائتا أو قية والاوقية أعظم من جبل أحد

[8/1557] al-Kafi: Muhammad b. Yahya from Ahmad b. Muhammad from al-Hasan b. Ali from Ishaq b. Ammar from Abi Abdillah عليه السلام who said: The one who recites a hundred verses in his prayers at night - Allah Mighty and Majestic records for him devotion of the whole night (in reward) for it. The one who recites two hundred verses [at night] outside (his) prayers - the Qur’an will not dispute against him on the Day of Judgment.  And the one who recites five hundred verses (total) in his prayers by day and at night - Allah Mighty and Majestic records for him in the Preserved Tablet a Qinṭār of good-deeds, and a Qinṭār is a thousand and two hundred Ūqiyya, and a (single) Ūqiyya is greater than the mountain of Uhud

[1558/9] الكافي: علي بن إبراهيم، عن أبيه، عن ابن أبي عمير، عن معاوية بن عمار، عن أبي عبدالله عليه السلام قال: لو قرء ت الحمد على ميت سبعين مرة ثم ردت فيه الروح ما كان ذلك عجبا

[9/1558] al-Kafi: Ali b. Ibrahim from his father from Ibn Abi Umayr from Muawiya b. Ammar from Abi Abdillah عليه السلام who said: If al-Ḥamd were recited upon a dead body seventy times and the soul is returned into it (i.e. the dead body) that would not be surprising

[1559/10] خصال الصدوق: عن ابن الوليد، عن الصفار، عن البرقي، عن إسماعيل بن مهران، عن عبيس بن هشام، عن غير واحد، عن أبي جعفر عليه السلام قال: قراء القرآن ثلاثة رجل قرأ القرآن فاتخذه بضاعة واستدر به الملوك واستطال به على الناس، ورجل قرأ القرآن فحفظ حروفه وضيع حدوده، ورجل قرأ القرآن فوضع دواء القرآن على داء قلبه فأسهر به ليله وأظمأ به نهاره وقام به في مساجده وتجافى به عن فراشه، فبأولئك يدفع الله العزيز الجبار البلاء وبأولئك يديل الله من الاعداء وباولئك ينزل الله الغيث من السماء، فوالله هؤلاء قراء القرآن أعز من الكبريت الاحمر

[10/1559] Khisal of al-Saduq: Ibn al-Walid from al-Saffar from al-Barqi from Ismail b. Mihran from Ubays b. Hisham from more than one from Abi Ja’far عليه السلام who said: The Qurrāʾ of the Qur’an are three:  A man who memorized the Qur’an so he takes it to be merchandise, attracts by it the rulers (to himself), and gains by it prominence over the masses.  A man who memorized the Qur’an so he preserves its letters but neglects its bounds, and treats it the way one does a drinking-cup. May Allah not increase such ones from among the bearers of the Qur’an! And a man who memorized the Qur’an so he applies the ointment of the Qur’an over the ailment of his heart. He keeps awake by it his nights, thirstens by it his days, stands with it in his places of prostration, and abandons for it his bed-wrap.  Because of them does Allah the All-Mighty and Most-Powerful avert tribulations, because of them does Allah Mighty and Majestic grant victory over enemies, and because of them does Allah Mighty and Majestic send down rain from the sky.  For I swear by Allah - such ones among the Qurrāʾ of the Qur’an are rarer than Red Sulphur!

[1560/11] التهذيب: علي بن مهزيار عن عن أيوب بن نوح عن محمد بن أبي حمزة قال: قال أبوعبدالله عليه السلام: من قرأ سورة الكهف في كل ليلة جمعة كانت كفارة له لما بين الجمعة إلى الجمعة

[11/1560] al-Tahdhib: Ali b. Mahziyar from Ayyub b. Nuh from Muhammad b. Abi Hamza who said: Abu Abdillah عليه السلام said: Whoever recites Sūrat al-Kahf every Friday eve (i.e. Thursday night) it becomes an expiation for him for what is between one Friday to another Friday (i.e. of sins) .

[1561/12] ثواب الاعمال: عن أبيه، عن محمد بن يحيى العطار، عن العمركي بن علي، عن علي بن جعفر، عن أخيه موسى بن جعفر (عن أبيه) عليهما السلام قال: قال علي عليه السلام: من صلى صلاة الفجر ثم قرأ قل هو الله أحد إحدى عشر مرة لم يتبعه في ذلك اليوم ذنب، وإن رغم أنف الشيطان

[12/1561] Thawab al-A’mal: From his father from Muhammad b. Yahya al-Attar from al-Amraki b. Ali from Ali b. Ja’far from his brother Musa b. Ja’far عليهما السلام who said: Ali عليه السلام said: Whoever prays Ṣalāt al-Fajr (the dawn prayer) and then recites Qul Huwa l-Llāhu Aḥad eleven times - no sin will follow this on that day, though the Devil’s nose be soiled (i.e. though the Devil be humiliated because he will try to persuade one to sin but will not succeed however much he tries)

Muʿjam al-Aḥādīth al-Muʿtabara

Book 5, Chapter 5