Correcting the Weak Documentation of the Mashikha of al-Tahdhīb through the Authentic Documentation of Shaykh Tusi’s al-Fehrist according to Asif Mohseni

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Document Type : پژوهشی

Authors

• saeeda mohseni ¹
• mohammad hasan Rostami ²
• hasan naghizadeh ³

¹ faculty of Ilahiyat in Ferdowsi uni.

² Ferdowsi university of Mashhad

³ , Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. IRAN

10.22067/jquran.2023.83199.1578

Abstract

Appropriation, replacement, and ultimately, “source correction” is one of the accepted methods to restore the weak documentation of narrations. One of the most important contexts of executing this method is the rectification of the weak documentation of the “mashikhah (sourcebook) of Tahdhībayn” through the authentic documentation of al-Fehrist and by using it, many science of narrators researchers have increased the number of authentic sources and chains of narrators of the mashikhah; however, the manner of applying this rule has not been uniform and it has not gone through a similar process in the different instances. That which has been the foundation of most science-of-narrators researchers in correcting the weak documentation of source books is the delegation of some chains of narrators to al-Fehrist from Shaykh al-Tusi.

Asif Mohseni is one of the contemporary science-of-narrators researchers who has considered the abovementioned correction difficult by presenting proofs from al-Fehrist itself and has not utilized such a method in rectifying documentation. His most important argument is Shaykh Tusi’s innumerous use of the phrase “akhbarna” (we were informed) in al-Fehrist which does not indicate a meaning beyond awareness of the “names” of books and principles and does not denote other methods of communication such as hearing, reading, etc. Asif Mohseni has also raised some corroborative disqualifiers in refuting the abovementioned rectification which do not possess precise theoretical support compared to his other arguments.

Keywords

• source correction
• al-Mashika. authentic chains
• al-Fehrist
• Asif Mohseni

Main Subjects

• Quran and Hadith Studies

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