One of the important issues in understanding hadith is to consider the defective traditions and distinguishing them from sounds traditions. Knowing defective traditions needs exact information and necessary expertise in the knowledge of hadith, and only the specialists in the science of hadith and scholars who are completely familiar with the documents and texts of traditions can distinguish th...

Basat or flying rug tradition illustrates the strange event of Ali’s space journey on the flying rug, which took place in the presence of some companions of the Prophet, including Abu Bakr and Umar. This journey from Madinah to the Cave of the Sleepers has taken place at the time of the Prophet, peace be upon him and his household, to prove the supremacy of Ali and his authority over others. ...

One of the most commonly cited traditions among Sufis is the tradition of "Kanz-e Makhfi". It has been valued as a repeated and many stated prophetic tradition before the relgious jurists. However, many doubts have been cast on the authenticity and documentation of this tradition. Though inadequate, the present discussion attempts to study and judge both the content and the authenticity of this...

This article reviews the commentary tradition around the Metaphysics of Avicenna’s Shifā’ as it evolved in the lands that belonged to Avicenna’s own cultural horizon, most of all in Iran. From this overview it emerges that this tradition is characterized by a keen interest  in textual criticism and a solid philosophical grasp of Avicenna’s metaphysical doctrines. This interest...

The study and investigation of the credibility of reliable tradition due its many instances in the sources of Shiite hadith has a remarkable importance. In a general view the Shiite scholars can be divided into two groups. First, a group that admits the credibility of reliable hadith, which is divided further into those who give absolute credit to reliable tradition and those who acknowledge ...