Document Type : Original Article

Author

• Mehdi Akbar Nezhad

Associate Professor of Department of Qur'an and hadith - University of Ilam

Abstract

From the early days of Islam, after Qur'an, the Sunnah was known as the second pure source of religious knowledge expansion and explanation; but this process was undergone some damage that aroused sensitivity of the Islamic grandee, scholars and clement. One of these damages was the phenomenon of hadith ordaining and forging. Considering that, deal with this process was done by many Islamic grandee from the early days of this unblessed phenomenon appearance in the circle of traditions; the present study has attempted to show lodgment of Imam Reza toward this issue while studying and analyzing substrates of forging hadith at the time of Imam Reza. The result suggests that: the appearance of various currents and releasing thoughts, overstate ideas, opposition to Imams and excessive power seeking of Bani Abbas, were the most important factors in forging Hadith at the time of Imam Reza. In contrast, Imam was performed important actions to prevent the founding fathers of this process to achieve their goals, Including: the explanation of the valid and acceptable hadith’s criteria, recommendation to companions for obtaining and narration the hadith from authentic sources, the supply of narrations on Imam and Hadith refining and in some cases, deal with causer of hadiths. 

Keywords

• 1mam Reza
• Bani Abbas
• hadith ordaining
• Hadith refining