Early Responses to al-Ḥaira

Ibn Bābawaih’s al-Faqīh has received much attention by scholars in the fieldof Shiʻi studies, especially, Western-language authors. However, his severalother collections of the Imams’ aḥādith have received less attention.Focusing on Ibn Bābawaih’s Kamāl ad-Din and ʻUyūn Aḫbār ar-Riḍā, textsassembled in the first suggest that what seem today to be some very basicpoints of Twelver Shiʻi doctrine were, in fact, both disputed within thecommunity and under challenge from other discourses outwith thatcommunity. According to this study, portions of the second (ʻUyūn Aḫbārar-Riḍā) suggest that some segments of the community were coming out ofthe period of al-Ḥaira addressed by Kamāl.

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Aš-Šaiḫ aṣ-Ṣadūq ، Bābawaihs ، Hadith ، al Kulainī ، Šaiḫ aṭ-Ṭūsī ، Abu Sahl an- Nawbaḫtī