Journal of Researches of Quran and Hadith Sciences
Year:2015 | Volume:12 | Issue:2 (26)|Papers Count:7

Among the topics discussed in the science of hadith, the issue of rephrasing (naql-be-ma’na) hadith is subject to debate. Those accepting it, consider it permitted within special terms. This article has studied the “Majma’ al-Bayan” exegesis which pays great concern to narrating traditions, as if it has rephrased hadiths and if so, whether the necessary terms have been observed. The method used is descriptive- analytical, using library sources.The results show that in this exegesis four kinds of rephrasing has occurred: replacing synonyms, referring to part of the words or subjects, merging words of different hadiths and reconstructing the hadith. It has also elaborated that this rephrasing has led to various defects.

In the Holy Qur'an, many verses embrace ethical issues which are prescribed according to actual advantages and disadvantages; nonetheless as they comprise propositions and concepts related to human behavior and their concerns, these verses have been studied in ethic exegeses and books and at times variant interpretations have been suggested for one identifying verse, while these verses have been introduced as the “free zone” (manteghat-ul-feragh) in Islam. This approach to such verses leads to some important questions:Why ethical propositions are scattered in the Holy Quran? What is the prevailing order in these verses? What is the status of this moral system in the whole Islamic cognitive system? This article attempts to first: explain the relationship between moral verses of the Quran and the whole Islamic cognitive system, then, to explain the prevailing order in these verses and their role in the development of Islam. For this mean, it has employed “content analysis” method for extraction, classification and categorization of moral propositions. Consequently this article suggests a comprehensive model proving the existence of a comprehensive system for the moral teachings of the Holy Qur'an and its efficiency in the development and guidance of individuals and societies.

In Shiite and Sunnite hadith collections, a tradition with different isnad and variant versions has been quoted, while the following wording is one of its most important ones: «The benevolence is not righteous unless to the noble and the religious». according to this tradition the extent of benevolence is limited to one of the two cases: noble ancestry (nobility) or being religious.However, according to Islam and religious texts, either Holy Quran or the Imams’ traditions, kindness and benevolence comprises all human beings, regardless of their cult and religion, and even more it embraces all creatures. Therefore it seems that this hadith does not intend to restrict kindness to a group of people, but it actually means to negate initial generosity to them. This restriction is in fact due to the characteristic and behavior of non-honorable men/women and in part some unbelievers (or non- practicing believers) i.e. ungratefulness which is one of the most prominent behaviors of these groups of persons.

Mosques, schools, tekkiyehs, hosseiniyehs, ta'zieh ceremonies and hadiths are among traditional religious media. The addressee of this media is the public in general and this kind of media should actually be identified as traditional religious media. Considering the mission of Islam for guiding all the people, traditional communicators accepted all those interested in Islam. In this article, hadith is regarded as a media comprising transferable messages. The aim of the sender - here, Imams - is obtained only by transferring the message and the message is the religious statements and concepts.The aim of this article is to identify the political, economic and social themes in Imam Hasan Al-Mujtaba's hadiths and the leading question is: which themes were of most importance to Imam (PBUH).The theoretical framework of this study is the integration and communication theory in Islamic society and it has employed documentary and content analysis as the method of research. The results reached in this survey show that the most important social, political and economic themes are as follows: doing good to others, affairs concerning the government and Ahl-ul-Bayt and charity and helping the poor.

Variant Literary opinions leads to different perceptions of the divine verses and at times, is considered as an evidence for accepting or reinforcing a particular interpretation. Therefore, at times of alternative literal opinions on one verse, it is of great importance to take into consideration the consistency of the chosen view with the corresponding literal opinions.The chosen verse discussed in this paper is among the polemic verses referred to by the Shiites and therefore open to different interpretations due to the Muslims’ conflict on the issue of succession of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) and subject to variant literal analysis.Examining the classic and contemporary exegeses, this article has inspected the literal opinions on the aforementioned verse and its weight in variant exegetical views. providing a relevant literary analysis consistent with the literal meaning of the verse and the valuable teachings of Quran and traditions, which shows that this verse can be considered as those introducing the Holy Prophet’s successor by mentioning his divine unique characteristics.

Gathering related traditions, along with its commentaries and interpretations given by Hadith scholars is of great significance to a better understanding of traditions. This article analytically investigates the traditions of "thousand doors of knowledge", (alf bab), in addition to the words of both Shia and Sunni scholars. The Sunni’s point of view on this group of traditions is regarded important from two aspects: first, concerning its reflection and narration in Sunni hadith sources; second, concerning their approach to "virtue" traditions on Ahl-al-Bayt’s (PBUT, from which these are just a part. In the second part, this article has considered the process and consequence of these traditions, deducing the increase of Imam’s knowledge, while the process of its transmission has been explained.

The origins for believing in variant stages of meaning in Quran are traditions from Imams (PBUT). In these traditions different examples have been introduced as the inward aspect (batn) of Quran; but it seems that these examples are not basically identical. Allamah Tabatabayi is of the first Quranic scholars who has widely studied these traditions and as this theory has a great impact on the interpretation of the Holy Quran, he has tried to propose a comprehensive definition for these traditions. The examples mentioned in the traditions display two different category of inward aspect: the one concerning meaning and the other concerning denotations. Allamah introduces the former as the actual inward aspect (batn) of Quran and the latter “Jary” offering two separate definitions for them. Despite this classification, at times he hesitates in identifying the examples mentioned. Studying these cases shows that they mostly can be classified in the denotation group while he labels them as “batn” without giving any such a definition for “batn”.