“Addition and Detraction” in narrations, in the sense of adding or detracting something from them, is one of the defects which has found its way into hadith and to identify and pay attention to its undesirable consequences need a comprehensive research. Scholars of hadith have always paid attention to this defect and believe one of the preliminary steps in using hadith is to purify hadith from ...

The Book “the Secret of Prophet Mohammad’s Midnight Journey to the Seven Heavens in Explanation of Al-Mi’raj Hadith” is written by Ayatollah Sa’adatparvar. Analyzing the discourse of a part of its introduction, his recognition method about this hadith has been investigated in this paper. The paper aims at investigating the particular discourse pattern of the author in analyzing the document of ...

The ancient and vast land of central Asia was conquered soon by Muslims and Islam became the creed of the people of that region. The settlement of this religion in that land was not only a military event. The people of Central Asia who professed Islam, like other Muslims in other lands, had their part to play in benefitting from the teachings of Islam and also in spreading those teachings and t...

The Quranic Muqatta'a letters are one of the Quranic topics about which scholars expressed different viewpoints. Considering the interpretation of these letters and the intention of God, many various views have been mentioned. Some narrations are found to interpret these letters. For example, a hadith in Maani al-Akhbar of Sheikh Saduq has interpreted all these letters. This hadith is assumed t...