the sources have made little reference to ḥusayn b. rūḥ nawbakhtī (d. 326/938), a relative of nawbakhtī household, who was known to the imāmī shī‘as as the third deputy of the twelfth imam, or they have made no reference to his personality dimensions. the issue this article deals with is whether his specific deputyship has been addressed in the earlier sources including the historical, theologi...

prophet mohammad (pbuh) has always recommended the pious to be faithful to the islamic ethics and behave fairly toward all people. quranic verses and hadiths of ahl-ol-bayt all emphasize on the fact that even in the face of heretical people and movements, justice and morality should not be violated and moreover religion should never be defended employing deceitful and rebuking ways. but in the ...

the amount of reliability on outward aspects of the quran and the role of traditions in it has been one of the linguistic basics of the holy quran and it has allocated to itself a large volume of principled and hermeneutical subjects. we faced two sets of statements in teachings of imam ali (pbuh). the first category are the evidences that it may be understood from them authority and validity o...

viewpoint ofimamiehilm al-kalam on wickedness hussein emadzadeh1,dr. mahdi farmanian21- ph.d. student ofimamiehilm al-kalam, tehran university (farabi campus), instructor at islamic azad university of gachsaran, corresponding author, e-mail: [email protected] assistant professor, university of religions and denominationsabstractscholars before khawja that were living at a time when ilm a...

a search into the earlier tradition sources of the sunnīs indicates that part of them, entitled kitāb al-faḍā’il, address the excellences (faḍā’il) and virtues (manāqib) of individuals and groups. dedicating a separate chapter under this rubric along other chapters and sections of ḥadith collections reveals the importance of this issue and the endeavors of the compilers of sunnī ḥadith collecti...