Dealing with innovators and doubters in religious affairs (a case study of Ibn Sarhan)

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Associate Professor, Department of Qur’ān and hadīth Sciences, faculty of theology, College of Farabi, University of Tehran, Qom, Iran. E-mail: hrezaii@ut.ac.ir.

2 Master of Political Science, Baqir al-Olum University, Qom, Iran. E-mail: Mohammadmirkhani@gmail.com

3 Master of Qur’ān and hadīth Sciences, faculty of theology, College of Farabi, University of Tehran, Qom, Iran. E-mail: Fkamali@ut.ac.ir

Abstract

A narration in Al-Kafi issues the command of "Behtan" along with "Sab" and "Waqi'a" in the face of "Ahl al-Rib and Bid'at". This narration, which is called "Mubahateh", has become one of the most challenging topics among scholars, jurists and moralists. Calling blasphemy and the legal-moral sanctity of blasphemy has caused the thinkers under this narrative to hesitate about the concept of "blasphemy" and the possibility or impossibility of applying it to heretics. In the conducted researches, most of the researchers, by accepting the basis of the applicative nature of ugliness in any situation, have tried to weaken the narrative or carry the meaning of ugliness on this category.
This research, with analytical-critical method, while criticizing the previous writings about Mubahateh narration, examines documents, lexical concepts, the formation of hadith family and using semantic data, comprehensive analysis of Behtan and then the reason of the issuance of the said verdict based on the expression of the peak of individual degeneration and The depth of corruption created by the innovators in the religious community has been discussed. From the sum of the various evidences, it is concluded that this narration introduces Behtan as one of the strategies for dealing with heretics and skeptics.

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