"The alms giving of knowledge is this that you teach it to the servants of God.

"The alms giving of knowledge is this that you teach it to the servants of God." Moawiyyah Bin Ammar says I submitted to Imam Jaffer sadiq(A.s.) ",one of your states great number of traditions & propagates them among the people & makes them firm & steady into the hearts of people & your shias.

And on the other hand, there is a worshiper among your followers (shias) who is not active in propagating your traditions amid the people like that (other) man, so which one of them is better?" Imam sadiq(A.S) said.

الرواية لحديثنا يشدد به قلوب شيعتنا، افضل من الف عابدٍ.[^5] "That person who propagates our sayings (traditions) & makes the hearts of our shias steady & firm (with our culture) is better than a thousand adorers." Imam Ali ReZa(A.S) said ",Allah may have mercy upon the person who revives & establshes our affair." A man asked him ",How must one revive it? He replied. يتعلم علومنا ويعلمها الناس.[^6] "He may learn our knowledges & teach others" 3. A brief consideration of learning forty Hadieths.

The Prophet of Allah said " من حفظ امتی اربعين حديثاً تحتاجون اليه من امر دينهم بعثه الله يوم القيامة فقيهاً عالماً[^7] " the one from among my ummah who learns by heart forty Haieths, which they need for their relegion, Allah will resurge & ressurect him (as) a wise jurispudent on the dooms day". Four points must be taken into veiw a about this Hadieth. This tradition has been much narrated with a little amount of difference & variation both by the shia & sunni traditionalists.

And even some say this is a "Mutawatir" widely transmitted tradition. That is to say it has been so very much narrated that the sure knowledge of it's being soundly narrated from the infallible Imam(,f.!J is achieved[^8] . Allama Majlisi (may God have mercy on him) says about the word "memorising of tradition", mentioned in the above stated Haieth, ",As a matter of right, memorising (learning hadieth by heart has many grades. the rewards of them granted are according to the same grades.

One of it's grades & tages is securing & learning the text of the hadieth, whether thst securing comes about in the memory securing it from getting perished like preserving it on papers & correction of its words & reproducing it. The second grade is learning the text & meanings of forty Hadieths & contemplation of their minute points & deduction of religious injunctions & Islamic learnings from them.

The third stage is that the text of those forty Hadieths may be implemented, practiced upon & secured.