Sanad and Rijāl Study of the Sanads of the Commentary Attributed to Imam ʿAskarī (AS) up to Sheikh Ṣadūq

The commentary attributed to Imam Hassan ʿAskarī (AS) is one of the narrative commentaries with about ۳۷۹ narrations; which is unique in its kind with nearly one hundred late manuscripts. This work, apart from the indifference of cataloguers and translators to it, is controversial in various aspects, such as: "date of authorship, attribution of the book to the author, sanads and content of the book". One of these problems, which needs to be considered, is the review of the sanads of this book; both in terms of examining the form of sanads in manuscripts, and in terms of examining the narrators of sanads, in terms of omission and rijālī translation. In the present study, while introducing five types of sanads of this commentary and also the rijālī study of the narrators of the sanads of this commentary up to Sheikh Ṣadūq, it was found that this work, which most likely belongs to Nāṣir Aṭrūsh and is from Zaidi heritage, has about two hundred years old; Also, in the rijālī study of ten narrators of its sanads up to Sheikh Ṣadūq, it was found that apart from the Irsāl of these sanads, most of the narrators of this work are "unknown or weak". It also seems that Sheikh Ṣadūq did not have this book, at least in its current form.

Keywords:

Hassan Ibn Ali , Aṭrūsh , Tafsīr Imam Hassan Naseri ʿAskarī , Iḥtijāj , Ṭabrisī , Ṣadūq