Features of trustworthiness prevalent according to the Early Imami Scholars

- An Applied Study -

Abstract

This study examines the concept of trustworthiness prevalent among both recent and contemporary scholars and researchers. It focuses on a construct that has been followed by our earlier scholars, such as Sheikh al-Saduq and Sheikh al-Ta'ifa al-Tusi. However, later scholars adopted this approach in a new form, demonstrating the dynamism and development of the hadith school.

The study focused on practical examples, as they constitute a scientific tributary to academic study, on the one hand, and on examining the approaches of earlier scholars regarding the trustworthiness of narrators, and whether criticism or praise influenced their work on narrations, and how they worked with therapeutic reports in terms of the narrator's trustworthiness, on the other hand. The study traced the historical path of the emergence of the term trustworthiness among later scholars, highlighting some of the statements of al-Saduq and Sheikh al-Tusi regarding the trustworthiness of narrators, despite the collective awareness among specialists that emphasizes the narrative content of accepting or rejecting reports and the methodology based on internal and external evidence.