Sunnī-Shīʿī Interaction in the Early Period – The Transition of the Chains of Ahl al-Sunna to the Shīʿa –

Bekir KUZUDİŞLİ

doi:https://doi.org/10.12730/13091719.2015.61.122

Article Details

Sunnī-Shīʿī Interaction in the Early Period – The Transition of the Chains of Ahl al-Sunna to the Shīʿa –

Authors:

Bekir KUZUDİŞLİ

Publisher:

Bursa İlahiyat Vakfı

Main Topics:

Religions (General)

Journal:

Ilahiyat Studies 2015 Vol.6 Issue 1, pp.7-45

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

2/2016

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000784033

Frequency:

Bi-Annual

eISSN:

1309-1719

pISSN:

1309-1786

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12730/13091719.2015.61.122

Abstract:

 


The objective of this study is to examine when and by whom Sunnī narrations (isnāds) such as “companion > successor…” were incorporated within the Shīʿī ḥadīth canons, even though these references are rarely seen in the Shīʿī tradition. This study does not merely reveal how the mentioned chains/isnāds passed from Ahl al-sunna to the Shīʿa but also provides significant ideas with regard to the historical journey of the Shīʿī ḥadīth narrative (riwāya). Thus, I hope to obtain clues about the origins of certain narratives that the Shīʿa consider critical of Ahl al-sunna but that cannot be proven by Sunnī sources. To remain loyal to the limits of this study, I will compare the chapters “Thawāb al-aʿmāl wa-ʿiqāb al-aʿmāl” within Kitāb al-maḥāsin by al-Barqī, who treats the era of the eleventh imām and al-Ghayba al-ṣughrā (The Lesser Occultation), and Thawāb al-aʿmāl wa-ʿiqāb al-aʿmāl by al-Sheikh al-Ṣadūq, who conducted his scholarly life during al-Ghayba al-kubrā (The Greater Occultation) period, with regard to the use of Sunnī chains. These two works are especially important because they reflect tendencies both before and after the Greater Occultation.

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Article Details

Sunnī-Shīʿī Interaction in the Early Period – The Transition of the Chains of Ahl al-Sunna to the Shīʿa –

Authors: Bekir KUZUDİŞLİ

Publisher: Bursa İlahiyat Vakfı

Main Topics: Religions (General)

Journal: Ilahiyat Studies 2015 Vol.6 Issue 1, pp.7-45

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 2/2016

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2000784033

Frequency: Bi-Annual

eISSN: 1309-1719

pISSN: 1309-1786

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12730/13091719.2015.61.122

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Authors:

Bekir KUZUDİŞLİ

Publisher:

Bursa İlahiyat Vakfı

Main Topics:

Religions (General)

Journal:

Ilahiyat Studies 2015 Vol.6 Issue 1, pp.7-45

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

2/2016

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2000784033

Frequency:

Bi-Annual

eISSN:

1309-1719

pISSN:

1309-1786

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12730/13091719.2015.61.122