Tahdhib al-Ahkam The author also mentions some problems...

Tahdhib al-Ahkam The author also mentions some problems about Tahdhib al-ahkam and although believes that Tahdhib al-ahkam is comprehensive about rulings and contains almost all hadiths about rulings, however, regarding its emptiness of hadiths regarding principles of beliefs, it is the same as Man la yahduruh al-faqih .

In addition to the mentioned points, he also points out the following problems in Tahdhib al-ahkam: Coverage of far-from-the-fact interpretations and wrongly relating the conflicting hadiths Separating hadiths which need to be mentioned together and mentioning hadiths together which needed to be separate.

Placing many reports in inappropriate places and not mentioning hadiths in their respective places Having boring repetitions and stretching chapters with short titles Al-Istibsar According to al-Fayd, al-Istibsar was a part of Tahdhib al-ahkam which was extracted from it and has been remiss in mentioning contradictory and conflicting reports and has tried to relate them using close and far hadiths.

In his opinion, it is fair to say that relating such hadiths and others is something impossible and even out of man’s capability. Before beginning his work, the author has brought three issues and explained about them as following: Way of learning religious sciences Way of identifying hadith references Terminology and rules of the book Advantages and Features Great order in mentioning hadiths in corresponding chapter. Explanation of the words in hadiths and some verses of the Qur’an.

Narrating hadiths related to every chapter from references other than the Four Books. Making the researcher needless of referring to references in many hadiths. Mentioning the cases when a hadith is split. Interpreting many Qur’anic verses. Paying attention to the cause of issuing hadiths upon explaining their meanings. Correcting the texts of hadiths in the Four Books using different hadith sources. Correcting references of the hadiths from the Four Books.

Observing scholarly piety in relating scholarly theories to their owners. Explaining the philosophy of some issues in the verses of the Qur’an or hadiths. Mere following of reason in fatwas. Explaining the meaning of proverbs in narrations. Explaining similitudes in narrations. Clarifying the meaning of narrations through giving examples. Bringing poems related with the subjects of narrations. Mentioning the cases of mentioning a narration in the Four Books, etc.