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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Spurious Arguments about the Shia The Nineteenth Spurious Argument: The Criterion for Accepting and Rejecting Hadith Some people launch spurious attacks against the Shia claiming that they don’t accept traditions narrated by some of the , they do not accept the Sunni books of traditions, such as the six main (Sahih) books.

They claim that the Shia do not depend upon the traditions mentioned in such books, and that they do not quote traditions from them except when they want to refute them. Instead, they depend only upon the traditions narrated by the Prophet’s family (peace be upon them).

The Answer Shia jurisprudence with respect to proving the veracity of one-way related information is based upon the chain of its narrators, whether or not they were trustworthy, no matter it had been mentioned in a Shia or Sunni book. Having a book called Sahih (i.e. Correct) is not sufficient, every one of the narrators of that tradition must be proven to have been trustworthy regardless of whether he was Shiite or Sunni, or whether or not it had been mentioned in Shiite or Sunni books.

Allah says: O you who believe! If an evildoer comes to you with a report, look carefully into it. (Qur’an 49:6) And follow not that of which you have not the knowledge. (Qur’an 17:36) In their jurisprudence, the Shia depend upon the traditions narrated by the Prophet’s family because they were the authority for the nation after (s). This is confirmed by the prophetic tradition of Thaqalayn, the two weighty matters upon which all Muslims agree.

We have mentioned this tradition in our book (Al-Jami’ li Barahin Usul ul-I’tiqadat). At-Tirmidhi mentioned this tradition in his book (Sahih) vol. 13 p. 200, narrated by Zayd bin Arqam and in another chain by Abu Sa’id that (s) had said: I have left to you two very weighty matters. If you keep to them, you will never go astray after my death. One, the greater than the other is the Holy Qur’an, which is as a string extended between Heaven and Earth, and the other is my family.

They will never separate until they come to me in Paradise. Be careful how to obey me through obeying them.” Some Sunni scholars have certified this tradition and its many sources. One of them was ibn Hajar in his book titled As-Sawa’iq. He said: The tradition of ath- Thaqalayn has been narrated by thirteen .