Methodology of compiling clinical hadiths in Al-Kafi

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Graduated from the fourth level of Qom seminary. Qom. iran

2 Assistant Professor of Shahrekord University. Shahr e Kord. iran

10.30510/psi.2022.300166.2150

Abstract

One of the principles and foundations that cause the knowledge of the scientific method of hadith scholars in compiling and how they deal with and use the narrations is to study their method in hadith books. One of the hadith books is important due to its antiquity and precedence. Because this book is one of the authoritative books and one of the important sources of Shiite narration. What makes this research important is that it is enough to model Shiite narration books in compiling hadith from books. This article seeks to answer the question, what methods did the late Klini use in formulating sufficient principles? The present article is an analytical, documentary, library that, in a summary with documents, concludes that it has sufficient principles in compiling a sufficiently honorable book, methods such as: bibliography of hadiths, expression of the complete document of hadith, avoidance From narration to meaning, introduction of narrator, hearing, trinity, meaning, some of my companions, brevity in quoting the document, unknown phrases in the document, offering hadith to the Qur'an, avoiding harmful narrations, not narrating conflicting narrations, quoting verses, explaining hadiths, He has used the explanations of the companions, the narration of the non-infallible and the narration of the hadiths which are not explicitly mentioned in the name of the infallible. With the aim of scientifically explaining the methodology of compiling clinical hadiths in Al-Kafi, the obtained result will be provided to hadith scholars.

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