The third distinctive feature of the compiler...

The third distinctive feature of the compiler, as mentioned by some of our great research scholars, is that his method of collecting and grading the traditions in a chapter is according to The order of the authenticity and the clarity of their meaning.

It is therefore the last traditions of every chapter that are always very general, brief and cryptic.73 The fourth feature of the book is that the compiler generally drops those traditions which, in any way are contradictory, and con-fines himself only to the traditions which come under the heading of that chapter.

Perhaps, it indicates his giving the traditions he has mentioned a preference to the traditions he has dropped and has not mentioned.74 SUB-DIVISIONS OF AL-KAFI al-Kulayni has sub-divided his book into three parts:- PART I ،V A L ،V U Sƒl U L It consists of the traditions on the principles of faith, and the explanation…