Hence, all Imams -asws in their Divine Role, competed the...

Hence, all Imams -asws in their Divine Role, competed the religion from what was left-out and omitted the additions so that the doubts and uncertainties are removed, as per several Ahadith, for example: Imams -asws keep on reviving the Islam (if something is added or taken out from Ahadith): حدثنا محمد بن عيسى عن ابن سنان وعلى بن النعمان عن عبد الله مسكان عن ابى بصير عن ابى عبد الله عليه السلام انه قال ان الله لم يدع الارض الا وفيها عالم يعلم الزيادة والنقصان في الارض فإذا زاد المؤمنون شيئا ردهم وإذا نقصوا اكمله لهم فقال خذوه كاملا ولولا ذلك لالتبس على المؤمنين امرهم ولم يفرقوا بين الحق والباطل It has been narrated to us by Muhammad Bin Isa, from Ibn Sinan and Ali Bin Al-No’man, from Abdullah Muskaan, from Abu Baseer, who has said: ‘Abu Abdullah -asws has said: ‘Allah -azwj does not Leave the earth except there is in it a knowledgeable one -asws who knows (where are) the excesses and deficiencies in the Earth.

If the believers exceed in something, he -asws takes it away from them, and if they are deficient in something, he -asws completes it for them. He -asws takes them to completion, and were it not for that, the affairs of the believers would become confusing for them and they would not be able to distinguish between the truth and the falsehood’.

[8] There are nine Ahadith in Basaair Al-Darajaat, all emphasising the need of an Imam -asws and his role in reinstating the religion when people make additions and/or omissions to the religion, find these Ahadith in Appendix I. When we take the Ahadith from those books which were compiled prior to the occurrence of Grand occultation, we find very little (if any) discrepancies, elements of doubts.

During that time, people as well as the Ahadith compilers had a direct contact with the Imams -asws so the Ahadith found in these earlier sources were sieved and corrected under the guidance of Imams -asws . Therefore, those Ahadith with addition, omissions and false and doubtful elements were not included in those books.

[9] Hence one gets a clear understanding and can use these Ahadith books, as foundation and as a bench-mark, the Ahadith books compiled after the Grand Occultation of the 12 th Imam -asws , then need to only taken once one has developed a strong background and when Ahadith from later sources are found to be in compliance with the ‘earlier sources of the Ahadith’.