يادكرد از حسين بن روح نوبختي در منابع كهن (سده‌هاي 4 تا 8 هجري)

Reference to Husayn b. Ruh Nawbakhti in Earlier Sources (4th/10th to 8th/14th Centuries)

منابع به حسين بن روح نوبختي (د 326 ق/ 938 م) از وابستگان خاندان نوبختي كه در نزد شيعيان اماميه به عنوان نايب سوم امام دوازدهم شناخته شده است كمتر پرداخته و يا اين كه به ابعاد شخصيتي او اشاره نكرده اند. مسيله‌اي كه اين مقاله به بررسي آن مي‌پردازد اين است كه آيا در منابع كهن اعم از نوشته‌هاي تاريخي، كلامي و حديثي شيعه، كتاب‌هاي رجال و فرق به نيابت خاص او پرداخته‌اند يا خير؟ به نظر مي‌رسد به علت تقيه شديد او و شيعيان در آن زمان، در منابع تاريخي و شيعه معاصر او نيابت حسين بن روح مطرح نشده و تنها پس از مرگش به نيابت او اشاره شده است. براي بررسي فرض مذكور ابتدا مطالبي كه در كتاب‌هاي تاريخي درباره حسين بن روح در سده‌هاي 4 تا 8 هجري مطرح گرديده بررسي شده، سپس منابع حديثي، كلامي اماميه و تاريخ‌هاي مربوط به اهل بيت در همين قرون مورد توجه قرار گرفته، آن گاه به كتاب‌هاي رجال و فرق پرداخته شده است.

The sources have made little reference to Husayn b. Ruh Nawbakhti (d. 326/938), a relative of Nawbakhti household, who was known to the Imami Shi‘as as the third deputy of the Twelfth Imam, or they have made no reference to his personality dimensions. The issue this article deals with is whether his specific deputyship has been addressed in the earlier sources including the historical, theological, and narrational writings of the Shi‘a and the books of rijal and sects. It seems that due to his intense precautionaryا dissimilation (taqiyya) and that of the Shi‘as of that time, no reference has been made to the specific deputyship of Husayn b. Ruh in his contemporary historical and Shi‘i sources and only after his death his deputyship has been pointed out. In order to examine the above-mentioned assumption, first the material brought up in historical books concerning Husayn b. Ruh in 4th/10th to 8th/14th Centuries are studied and then the Imami theological-narrational sources and the histories related to the Ahl al-Bayt in these centuries are taken into consideration and finally the books of rijal and sects are dealt with.