Sayyid Mortada's Fiqh ol-Hadith Logic in Al-Amaali

Sayyid Murtada is the prominent Shiite thinker and scholar of the fourth and fifth centuries. He represents a school of thought that appeals both to reasoning and hadith to achieve religious knowledge and Islamic religious regulations. Systematic reflection in the Qur’anic verses and methodical and rational review of hadiths are the characteristics of this school. Al-Amaali is one of sayyid Murtada’s works in which about thirty hadiths have been logically studied, analyzed and interpreted from the viewpoint of jurisprudence. The philosophy of Sayyid Murtada’s study and analysis is to clarify the odd traditions and provide a rational interpretation for them in conformity with the Shiite theological foundations. His logic and jurisprudential strategy towards the study of hadithes are not limited to one style; rather he goes through various ways to achieve the concept of words, their purpose and essence of meaning. In this logical, systematic and jurisprudential strategy of the study of the words, Arabic literature, Quran, hadiths, intellectual and theological foundations, cultural, social and historical issues and fundamental rules of osul, each has its own role to achieve the true essence of meaning of the hadiths.

Keywords: Sayyid Murtada, Al-Amaali, fiqh ol-hadith, Shiite theology

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* Associate professor, the faculty of Islamic knowledge and theology, Mazandaran University

** Ph.D. candidate of the Qur'an and hadith sciences, Mazandaran University