Reasons for the fragmentation of hadith according the Imamis

Abstract

This research deals with explaining the reasons that led to the emergence of fragmentation in the texts of hadiths, by separating some of their texts from others, with the intention of a number of matters. Some fragmentation can be caused by the intention of distortion and deliberate deletion with the intention of changing the meaning of the text, and it may be caused by abbreviation and its inevitability in some places or citations or classifications, or it may be caused by the subject of the book that requires mentioning some of the text without others that have no connection to the subject, and fragmentation may be caused as a result of the misprint that can occur in some hadith texts, or it may be due to the belief of the narrator and transmitter that the fragmented part of the hadith is not sound due to its inconsistency with the narrator’s or transmitter’s doctrinal beliefs. The research focused on mentioning the reasons mentioned by the Imami scholars, which they indicated were a reason for the occurrence of the phenomenon of fragmentation in the texts of the hadiths, mentioning at the end of the research the results obtained as a result of that.