‘Ilm Al-Rijal is the discipline where the reliability and status of hadith transmitters is discerned and evaluated. It is the backbone of the hadith sciences, since the acceptance and rejection of historical reports hinges upon the reliability of their respective [read more]
Shi’ite apologists often claim that the Twelver faith is a manifestation of the true teachings of the Prophet’s household. After appealing to a series of unverified premises and weak reports, polemicists will often invite non-Shias to join the Twelver faith [read more]
Evaluating examples of instances where forgers were identified and caught red-handed indeed is a very interesting endeavor. In such examples, one is exposed to the epitome of textual criticism and the meticulousness of Sunni scholarship with regards to the transmission [read more]
By the end of the 5th century, it was evident that the number of circulated fabrications by the Shia regarding the virtues of ‘Ali had were in the hundreds of thousands. The great muhaddith, Abu Ya’la Al-Khalili (d. 446), quotes [read more]
A common claim often made by Shi’ites is that the Twelvers, unlike Sunnis, do not possess Sahih hadith collections.When presented with a report from Shi’ite sources, the Shi’i polemicist will often retort saying: “But we Shias don’t label our books [read more]
by Abu Al-‘Abbas Al-Shami Abu Al-Mufaddal, Muhammad b. ‘Abdillah Al-Shaybani (d. 387), was an infamous Shi’ite forger from the city of Baghdad who was criticized and condemned by Sunni and Shi’ite scholarship alike. Though this transmitter’s reliability and trustworthiness are [read more]
by Abu Al-Abbas Al-Shami After engaging in Sunni-Shia polemics for a while, one eventually recognizes that most of the disagreement ultimately stems from one main factor: the relative independence of Sunni and Shi’ite primary historical sources. These independent primary [read more]
by Abu Al-Abbas Al-Shami Lebanese Shi’ite scholar, Sayyed Ja’far Murtaza Al-Ameli (b. 1945), is the author of one of the most important Shi’ite works on the Seerah, “Al-Sahih min Seerat Al-Nabi Al-A’ẓam”, which is in 35 volumes. At first glance, [read more]
It may come as a surprise to many Shīas, that there are multiple hadīths in the classical Shīa works that speak of thirteen Imāms instead of twelve. Today, Shīa scholars would dismiss these are scribal errors. These reports often state [read more]
`Abbād bin Ya’qūb Al-Rawājinī, a third century Kufan narrator, is one of the most peculiar cases a hadithist will ever come across. Even though he does not shy away from showing his Shīa tendencies by cursing companions like Uthmān, it [read more]
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