Al-Shiqshiqiyya Sermon: Difference between revisions

According to [[Shiite]] scholars, the sermon can be found in some works before Nahj al-balagha and its sources of narration go back to Imam 'Ali (a) himself. In his [[al-Ghadir]], [['Allama Amini]] mentioned 28 chains of narrations for this sermon in none of which [[Sayyid Radi]] appears. In the book "Partowi az Nahj al-balagha" (a light from Nahj al-balagha), 22 chains of narrations have been mentioned for the sermon, 8 of which are from sources before Sayyid Radi, 5 from Sayyid Radi's contemporaries, and 9 from sources after Nahj al-balagha or after the 5th century A.H. (11th century) from sources independent from Nahj al-balagha.

* [[Ibn Abi l-Hadid]], the Sunni [[Mu'tazili]] scholar (d. 656 A.H./ 1258) says, after his exposition of the sermon, that he had seen the sermon in the work of Abu l-Qasim al-Balkhi and Abu Ja'far b. Qubba both of whom had died before the birth of Sayyid Radi.

* [[Al-Shaykh al-Saduq]], who lived before Sayyid Radi, cited the Shiqshiqiyya sermon in his wok with a chain of narrators going back to Imam 'Ali (a); once in his [['Ilal al-shara'i']] and once in his [[Ma'ani l-akhbar]].

* [[Al-Shaykh al-Mufid]] (d. 413 A.H./ 1023), Sayyid Radi's teacher, cited the sermon in his book, [[al-Irshad]], saying that some narrators had cited the sermon with different chains of narrations. In his essay, '''al-Mas'alatan fi l-nass 'ala 'Ali (a)''' (two problems about textual evidence for 'Ali (a)), he cited the sermon as a well-known one, showing that there was no doubt about the reliability of the sermon in his time. In his book, al-Jamal, al-Shaykh al-Mufid takes the sermon to be too famous to need an explanation.