He -asws takes them to completion...

He -asws takes them to completion, and were it not for that, the affairs of the believers would become confusing for them and they would not be able to distinguish between the truth and the falsehood\u2019. [8] \n There are nine Ahadith in Basaair Al-Darajaat, all emphasising the need of an Imam -asws and his role in reinstating the religion when people make additions and\/or omissions to the religion, find these Ahadith in Appendix I.

\n When we take the Ahadith from those books which were compiled prior to the occurrence of Grand occultation, we find very little (if any) discrepancies, elements of doubts.\u00a0 During that time, people as well as the Ahadith compilers had a direct contact with the Imams -asws so the Ahadith found in these earlier sources were sieved and corrected under the guidance of Imams -asws .

\u00a0Therefore, those Ahadith with addition, omissions and false and doubtful elements were not included in those books.

[9] \u00a0 Hence one gets a clear understanding and can use these Ahadith books, as foundation and as a bench-mark, the Ahadith books compiled after the Grand Occultation of the 12 th Imam -asws , then need to only taken once one has developed a strong background and when Ahadith from later sources are found to be in compliance with the \u2018earlier sources of the Ahadith\u2019.

\n In this short article, we briefly introduce the major \u2018earlier sources of the Ahadith\u2019, some comments on the more famous four books (Kutab-e-Arabah), which contain only one book (Al-Kafi) from the earlier sources of Ahadith books, are given in Appendix II.