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[[Ayatollah Khoei]] mentions that his teacher, [[Ayatollah Na'ini]], would call doubting the sources of ''al-Kafi'', "the business of the incompetent".<ref>''Mu'jam rijal al-hadith'', vol. 1, p. 99.</ref> | [[Ayatollah Khoei]] mentions that his teacher, [[Ayatollah Na'ini]], would call doubting the sources of ''al-Kafi'', "the business of the incompetent".<ref>''Mu'jam rijal al-hadith'', vol. 1, p. 99.</ref> | ||
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According to the introduction to ''Al-Kafi'', Kulayni has written ''al-Kafi'' as response to a person he calls | According to the introduction to ''Al-Kafi'', Kulayni has written ''al-Kafi'' as response to a person he calls a 'religious brother”: | ||
::O brother! You asked why people have to be ignorant and blindly religious; because they are religious due to habit and imitation of their fathers… | ::O brother! You asked why people have to be ignorant and blindly religious; because they are religious due to habit and imitation of their fathers… | ||