Recently, a number of projects and proposals have emerged for the so-called revising literary books or the…
Recently, a number of projects and proposals have emerged for the so-called revising literary books or the distinguishing the correct ones whether regarding the four grand sources or Al-Bihar (Shia sources). Among these attempts are Alsaheeh (the correct one), Albihar project, and almu'tabar minal bihar (the authentic in Albihar sources). They have been done by some modern scholars or special committees relating to them. This project of eliciting the truth is based on the scholar's field rather than on all the fields. Moreover, these steps are just reactions to the problems raised by the opposing sides against some of the narrations or because they did not comprehend the narrations connotations. Here, we would like benefit from you and see what your position is regarding such projects through the following questions: 1. What is your opinion regarding such acts as the narration books are Al-Saheehs only and leaving out the other narrations which are not included here? 2. What is your opinion regarding this act after leaving out the fields of (awareness, men, and principles)? 3. One of the authentic books is Almu'tabar minal Bihar (the authentic of Bihar Alnwar). This book is composed of three volumes only which contain (2873) narrations out of the entire volumes of Bihar Alanwar). This was an attempt to make almu'tabar containing the authentic narrations although there are some which are authentic in twatur (continuously recurrent narrations) or Istifadha (the many times of mentioning a narration). These traditions don’t require scrutinizing in ethics and instructions like that needed in jurisprudence or theology. Do you see that an appropriate methodology in dealing with narration? 4. Can we get benefit from the abundance of weak narrations in a topic so that we can scrutinize the authenticity through tawatur or other methods? In some sections, there may be 80 traditions which are neglected and only one or two are accepted neglecting the entire number of the narrations. Each narration will be looked upon separately. 5. Does this project lead to the so-called Sihah in our traditions like the Sihah of the other side?
Answer
In the name of Allah, there is no doubt that whether the narration is authentic or not is a judgment that one should not impose his personal opinion on them like deleting some just because he thinks they are not authentic. They might be authentic to others. In so doing, he may destroy wealth of narrations which could be benefited from. The weak narrations are a lot and they deal with the same topic, the reader will trust the meaning of such narrations. Therefore, it seems that deleting weak narrations is not correct either, especially those concerned with jurisprudent rulings because many of our scholars use some weak narrations to prove something as recommended or disliked. This is the meaning of the saying (there is no strictness in traditions). For the traditions concerned with history, the virtues of Ahlulbait (as) or criticizing people of corruption, we do not have to delete them as there might be a person who wants to search about a figure through these narrations. Therefore, projects which you mentioned represent the opinion of the doer only and we cannot prevent him, but we consider it a service. Yet, this is not a reason for destroying or removing the narrations found in our books. Allah is the All-Guide and He Al-knowing.
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