Grounds for Comprehending Hadith in “Shaikh Horr ‎Ameli's” Work: "Al-Favaid ‎Al-Toosiah"‎ ‎

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In order to comprehend the content of Hadith, there is a need for a right method which is named ‎‎"Fiqh al-Hadith". To ‎obtain the meaning of the text of Hadith without this kind of the science ‎would lead to mistake and misguidance. To avoid this risk ‎there were formed many endeavors by ‎Muslim learned men to attain a proper understanding of Quran and Hadith that the science ‎of ‎Usul Fiqh was a sample.
Many of the great figures of Hadith in their comments on Hadith ‎collections have used of methods and ‎rules that may help us in knowing method, criteria and ‎grounds of comprehending Hadith. One of these works is a book by the name ‎of Al-Favaid Al-‎Toosiah by Shaikh Horr Ameli. This book due to the position of the writer and its explaining the ‎difficult narratives has ‎a main significance and in it we may find many important points and ‎subtleties and also the solutions for different objections and ‎fallacies not mentioned in other ‎books.
In this paper we have tried to articulate the grounds of Shaikh Horr in understanding ‎Hadith ‎with an analytical-descriptive method. Some of these grounds are as follows: to posit the ‎text, to assure about the authentication of ‎Hadith, removing the uncertainty in hadith, to form a ‎family group for Hadith, to know the words used in Hadith, knowing the causes ‎and conditions ‎of the issue of Hadith, considering the context of Hadith, to know the message of the proverbs ‎used in Hadith, to ‎solve the conflicts in Hadiths, and observing the Quran and other narratives ‎and etc.

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