Journal of Imamiyyah Studies

Journal of Imamiyyah Studies

Analyzing the Sources of ibn Babewayh's Narrations from Saad Ashari in His Book of al-Imamah and al-Tabserah men al-Heyrah

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Ensi Mokhberi 1
mohammad ghafourinejad 2
1 Master's Graduate in Imami Theology, Farabi Campus, University of Tehran, Qom, Iran
2 Associate Professor, Department of Shia Studies, University of Religions and Denominations, Qom, Iran
10.22034/jis.2023.265500.1610
Abstract
Recognizing the first hadith sources has several narrative, bibliographic and historical benefits. The similarity between the chains of transmitters, the authors of the book Fehrest had to the primary sources, and the chains of transmitters of hadiths, the repetition of the narrators of the book in the hadith sources, and matching the topic of the hadiths with the title of the books are signifiers of obtaining the hadith from the written sources. In his book, al-Imamah and al-Tabserah men al-Heyrah, which is the oldest Shia source on the subject of occultation, ibn Babewayh narrated a total of 87 hadiths, 37 of which he received directly from Saad ibn Abdollah Ashari. The most probable sources used by ibn Babewayh are the books of al-Imamah and Basaer al-Darajat by Saad ibn Abdollah Ashari. He has also used other books as follows: Al-Imamah by Mohammad ibn Hosayn ibn Abi Khattab, Al-Imamah by Mohammad ibn Isa ibn Obayd, Al-Imamah by Abdollah ibn Moskan, Al-Imamah by ibn Abi Omayr, al-Malahem and Tafsir by Hasan ibn Fazzal, al-Ghaem and al-Malahem by Ali ibn Mahziyar, al-Malahem by Mohammad ibn Senan, al-Tafsir and al-Malahem by Hosayn ibn Said, the books of Mohammad ibn Ismail ibn Bazi and also the book of Ghasem ibn Mohammad
Keywords
Ali ibn Babewayh
Al-Imamah and al-Tabserah men al-Heyrah
Saad ibn Abdollah Ashari
Imamate
Mahdism
Early Hadith Sources
Subjects
Helli, Hasan  ibn Solayman ibn Mohammad. 2000. Mokhtasar al-Basaer (Summary of the Book Basaer), Qom: Islamic Publishing Corporation. [in Arabic]
Helli, Hasan  ibn Yusof. 1990. Rejal al-Allamah al-Helli, Najaf: House of Reserves. [in Arabic]
Ibn Babewayh, Ali ibn Hosayn. 1983. al-Imamah wa al-Tabserah men al-Heyrah (Imamate and Insight from Confusion), Foreworded by Seyyed Mohammad Reza Hoseyni Jalali, Qom: Imam Mahdi (AS) Institute. [in Arabic]
Kashi, Mohammad ibn Omar. 1988. Rejal al-Kashi: Ekhtiyar Marefah al-Rejal, Mashhad: Mashhad University Publishing Institute. [in Arabic]
Kolayni, Mohammad ibn Yaghub. 1986. Al-Kafi, Tehran: Islamic Books House. [in Arabic]
Majlesi, Mohammad Bagher. 1982. Behar al-Anwar al-Jameah le Dorar Akhbar al-Aemmah al-Athar (Vast Oceans of Lights Containing the Selected Narrations of the Infallible Imams), Beirut: Arab Heritage Revival House. [in Arabic]
Marefat, Mohammad; Ghafurinejad, Mohammad. 2018. "Bazshenasi Masader Hadith Ketab al-Ghaybah Nomani (Recognizing the Hadith Sources of the Book al-Ghaybah by Nomani)", in: Shia Studies, no. 14, pp. 5-26. [in Farsi]
Najashi, Ahmad ibn Ali. 1986. Al-Rejal (Transmitters), Qom: Islamic Publication Office Affiliated with Teachers Association. [in Arabic]
Safa, Wahid; Shobeyri, Mohammad Jawad. 2020. "Wakawi Zamineh-hay Etebarsanji Manba Mehwar dar Tarikh Hadith Emamiyeh wa Ahl Tasannon (Analyzing the Fields of Source-based Validation in Imami and Sunni Hadith History)", in: Validation Studies of Shia Hadiths, no. 3, pp. 85-114. [in Farsi]
Saffar Qomi, Mohammad ibn Hasan. 1983. Basaer al-Darajat fi Fazael Al Mohammad (S) (Insights Degrees in the Virtues of the Family of Mohammad), Qom: Ayatollah Marashi Najafi Library. [in Arabic]
Shobeyri Zanjani, Mohammad Jawad. 1998. "Al-Kateb al-Nomani wa Ketaboh al-Ghaybah (al-Nomani and His Book al-Ghaybah)", in: Hadith Sciences, no. 4, pp. 188-208. [in Arabic]
Tabasi, Najm al-Din; Lotfi Mohammad Mahdi. 2006. "Hadithshenasi al-Imamah wa al-Tabserah men al-Heyrah (Hadithology of the Book Imamate and Insight from Confusion)", in: Awaiting the Promised, no. 18, pp. 179-208. [in Farsi]
Tusi, Mohammad ibn Hasan. n.d. Fehrest Kotob al-Shiah wa Osulehem wa Asma al-Musannefin wa Ashab al-Osul (List of Shiite Books and Their Sources and the Names of the Authors and the Compilers of the Sources), Qom: Researcher Tabatabayi Library. [in Arabic]
Journal of Imamiyyah Studies
Volume 9, Issue 17 - Serial Number 17
September 2023
Pages 95-119