بررسي حديث «كان اللَّه و لم يكن معه شي‏ »

A study of the narration “there was God and there was nothing with him”

حديث «كان الله و لم يكن معه شي » از احاديث معروفي است كه مضمون آن در روايات بسياري –با اختلاف الفاظ- بيان شده است، و درباره مفاد آن از سوي متفكران اسلامي، آرا مختلفي مطرح گرديده است. عده‏اي آن را بر پايه حدوث زماني، و گروهي بر پايه حدوث ذاتي و برخي نيز بر اساس وحدت وجود به شرح و تبيين آن پرداخته‏اند. مقاله حاضر در صدد است پس از بررسي متن و سند حديث، آرا متفكران اسلامي در اين زمينه را نقل و بررسي نمايد. واژه‏هاي كليدي: حديث كان الله و لم يكن معه شي ، حدوث زماني، حدوث ذاتي، وحدت وجود، كان تامه، كان ناقصه.

The narration “there was God and there was nothing with him” is one of the known traditions which its content has been expressed in many other narrations. The Islamic thinkers have posed different views about its significance. Based on the each principle of the unity of existence or essential contingency or temporal contingency, different Islamic thinkers have explained and interpreted the narration differently. The present article aims to study the chain of transmitters and the text of the narration and then to pose and study the views of the Islamic thinkers in this matter. Key words: There was God and there was nothing with him, temporal contingency, essential contingency, simple whetherness, composite whetherness.