نگاهي به روش تدوين سند در كتاب من لايحضرالفقيه

A Glance at the Procedure for Preparation of Sanad in "Man Ia Yahdirahu al-Faqih"

Shaykh al-Saduq is one of the distinguished scholars of the fourth/eleventh century whose famous book, Man la Yahdirahu al-Faqih, has always been favored by scholars and scientists to the extent that it has been regarded as one of the four Shiʹa books (Kutub al-Arbaʹa) along with Shaykh al-Kulayniʹs Al-Kafi and Shaykh al-Tusiʹs Al-Tahdhib and Al-Istibsar. The chain of transmission (sanad) of this hadith collection, which has been compiled at the request of one of the learned experts on legal rulings, is often not mentioned and various modes of writing have been adopted in the way sanad is written. In the end of the book, Ibn Bibway (Shaykh al-Saduq) has pointed out his own relation to the hadith masters and scholars so as to compensate this shortcoming of the chain of transmission of his book. The present paper is dedicated to the study of the procedure in which the chain of transmission of Man la Yahdirahu al-Faqih is formulated. Here, the author has also pointed to lbn Bibwayʹs method for the compilation of the ahadith of this book and touched upon such issues as suspension of sanad, elaboration on the eliminated sanads and adoption of ahadith.