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Chapter XIV : A Group of his Companions and of the Narrators of his Traditions
The school of Imam al‐Sadiq, peace be on him, continuously worked and spared no effort to
educate human reason, to develop mental renaissance, and to help the Muslims make progress in
the fields of civilization and science. It brought up a righteous generation ready for doing good
and great efforts. It conveyed its reformative message to the following generations. So thanks to
Imam al‐Sadiq’s school, the Islamic reason ripened, Islamic sciences, teachings, and rules came
into the practical existence in the east and west of the world.
When the Islamic world suffered the loss of demise of Imam al‐Sadiq, peace be on him, Imam
Musa, peace be on him, managed the affairs of that great school, which exalted science and
hoisted its flag. Since the first day after his father’s death, he became the den and leader of the
science board and mental renaissance in his time. The religious scholars came to him, and the
thinkers surrounded him. They did not leave him nor did they separate themselves from him, to
the extent that they hurried to record all his words and his religious decisions on various
events.[1] These scholars reported from him all kinds of science such as wisdom, exegesis of the
Holy Qur’an, and all chapters of the science of Islamic jurisprudence; they also narrated from him
social rules, excellent commandments, and his urging his followers to be versed in all kinds of
science.
That group of religious scholars and of narrators, whose number was over four thousand people,
was not on the same level of trust and justice; among it was a few number of the hypocrites and
liars who did not refrain from telling lies and fabricating traditions; they fabricated traditions and
ascribed them to the trusted Prophet, may Allah bless him and his family, and to his blessed
family, that they might take some money from the ruling authorities, which launched war against
Islam, spoiled the beliefs of the Muslims, divided them into groups and parties; Every sect
rejoicing in what they had with them. Yet there was another group from among the unknown who
were not authenticated; there was another group from among the weak; also there was among
them a large number of trustworthy and just narrators who refrained from fabrication and were
known for truthfulness and honesty. They did their best to precisely do the Islamic precepts and
to spread the science of Islamic jurisprudence of Ahl al‐Bayt, peace be on them. As such group
was among the narrators of hadith, the hadith has been divided, according to their viewpoint,
into: authentic hadith, good hadith, weak hadith, and trustworthy
[1] Al‐Anwar al‐Bahiya, p. 91.
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