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

[1567/1] الكافي: أبو علي الأشعري، عن محمد بن عبد الجبار، عن صفوان بن يحيى، عن ابن مسكان، عن أبي بصير، عن أحدهما عليه السلام قال: سألته عن قول الله عزو جل وَمَنْ أَظْلَمُ مِمَّنِ افْتَرَى عَلَى اللَّهِ كَذِبًا أَوْ قَالَ أُوحِيَ إِلَيَّ وَلَمْ يُوحَ إِلَيْهِ قال: نزلت في ابن أبي سرح الذي كان عثمان استعمله على مصر وهو من كان رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله يوم فتح مكة هدر دمه وكان يكتب لرسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله فإذا أنزل الله عزوجل إِنَّ اللّهَ عَزِيزٌ حَكِيمٌ كتب إِنَّ اللّهَ عَلِيمٌ حَكِيمٌ فيقول له رسول الله صلى الله عليه وآله: دعها فإن الله عليم حكيم وكان ابن أبي سرح يقول للمنافقين: إني لاقول من نفسي مثل ما يجئ به فما يغير علي فأنزل الله تبارك وتعالى فيه الذي أنزل

[1567/1] al-Kafi: Abu Ali al-Ash’ari from Muhammad b. Abd al-Jabbar from Safwan b. Yahya from Ibn Muskan from Abi Basir from one of them عليه السلام. He (Abi Basir) said: I asked him (i.e. the Imam) about the words of Allah Mighty and Majestic: “Who is a greater wrong-doer than him who fabricates a lie against Allah, or says, ‘It has been revealed to me,’ while nothing has been revealed to him” (6:93).  He (i.e. the Imam) said: It came down about Ibn Abi Sarh whom Uthman had made governor over Egypt while he was the one whose blood the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وآله  had made permissible (to be shed) on the day of the conquest of Mecca.  He used to write (the revelation) for the Messenger of Allahصلى الله عليه وآله  so if Allah Mighty and Majestic sends down “Verily Allah is Mighty, Wise” he (i.e. Ibn Abi Sarh) writes (instead) “Verily Allah is Knowledgeable, Wise” so the Messenger of Allahصلى الله عليه وآله  would say to him ‘let it be - for Allah is indeed Knowledgeable, Wise’.  Ibn Abi Sarh used to say to the hypocrites: ‘I say from my own self (i.e. of my own accord) the like of what he (i.e. the prophet) comes with but he does not require me to change it’. Then Allah Blessed and Elevated sent down about him what he sent down

Muʿjam al-Aḥādīth al-Muʿtabara

Book 5, Chapter 8