Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Special Salawaat of the month of Sha'ban Chapter 10: Following The Tradition Of Prophet At first look, one may think why we must follow his way of life. The root of this order is in the Holy Quran.
In many verses, Quran ordered us to follow him and In Surah of Hashr, the Quran says, وَ ما آتاكُمُ الرَّسُولُ فَخُذُوهُ وَ ما نَهاكُمْ عَنْهُ فَانْتَهُوا وَ اتَّقُوا اللَّهَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ شَديدُ الْعِقابِ (7) ”[^1] The Quran also tells us to monitor his actions and make it as a plan for our life. لَقَدْ كانَ لَكُمْ في رَسُولِ اللَّهِ أُسْوَةٌ حَسَنَةٌ لِمَنْ كانَ يَرْجُوا اللَّهَ وَ الْيَوْمَ الْآخِرَ وَ ذَكَرَ اللَّهَ كَثيراً [^2].
In addition, we must know that in every aspect of our life we have a tradition from the Prophet. For choosing the way of their life, Muslims do not need to beg their lifestyle from different ideologies and academies. All the necessities of perfection have come in the lifestyle and Hadith of Prophet. There is a Hadith in the book of Basaer Al-Darajat by Safar Qomi that explains this point very well.
المجلسی عن بصائر الدرجات بسندهٍ عَنْ أَبِي أُسَامَةَ قَالَ كُنْتُ عِنْدَ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع وَ عِنْدَهُ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْمُغِيرِيَّةِ فَسَأَلَهُ عَنْ شَيْءٍ مِنَ السُّنَنِ فَقَالَ مَا مِنْ شَيْءٍ يَحْتَاجُ إِلَيْهِ وُلْدُ آدَمَ إِلَّا وَ قَدْ خَرَجَتْ فِيهِ السُّنَّةُ مِنَ اللَّهِ وَ مِنْ رَسُولِهِ وَ لَوْ لَا ذَلِكَ مَا احْتَجَّ عَلَيْنَا بِمَا احْتَجَّ فَقَالَ الْمُغِيرِيُّ وَ بِمَا احْتَجَّ فَقَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ع قَوْلُهُ الْيَوْمَ أَكْمَلْتُ لَكُمْ دِينَكُمْ وَ أَتْمَمْتُ عَلَيْكُمْ نِعْمَتِي حَتَّى فَرَغَ مِنَ الْآيَةِ فَلَوْ لَمْ يُكْمِلْ سُنَّتَهُ وَ فَرَائِضَهُ وَ مَا يَحْتَاجُ إِلَيْهِ النَّاسُ مَا احْتَجَّ بِهِ Abi Usameh has said, “I was in the presence of Imam Ja’far Sadiq and someone from the tribe of Moghayreh came and asked Imam about the lifestyle of the Prophet.
The Imam answered him, “There is nothing that humankind needs unless the Prophet has some tradition about it. If it was not like that the proofs for our Imamat would be incomplete.” The man asked him, “What proofs?” Imam replied, ”الیوم اکملت” so if what people need does not exist in his tradition this verse will be disproven”[^3].
The Measure For Evaluating Action In the scale of justice, one criterion for prizing action is the correspondence of action to the Prophet’s tradition, not the quantity.