The Quantitative and Qualitative Impact of Al-Hasan Bin Muhammad Bin Sama’ah Al-Wafifi on The Narrative Heritage of The Imamiyya, The Book Al-Kafi as An Example (Research Extracted from a doctoral Dissertation)

Abstract

After the departure of the Messenger of God, many sects appeared in the ranks of the Muslims for several reasons, the most important of which is the financial and political reason. The emergence of sects and divisions did not stop among the Muslims, even during the time of the infallible, from the time of the Commander of the Faithful, to our present time. There is no imam who does not have a standing, and these The Waqifites were companions of the Imams, peace be upon them, and they transmitted from them, and our narrative heritage reached us through the transmission of some of them, so we can hardly find our heritage devoid of them, until Sayyid al-Murtada Alam al-Huda said (For most of the jurisprudence and its majority, and even all of it, is not devoid of its document from those who adhere to the Waqifi school of thought, either it is originally in the report or Branch, narrator on the authority of others, and narrated on his authority, and to the extremists, and the rhetoricians, and the fifth, and the people of solutions, like so-and-so, and so-and-so, and so many others), so it becomes clear that their contribution had a prominent impact. Therefore, in this research, the researcher deals with the quantitative and qualitative impact left by one of the most prominent figures and scholars of the Waqfah, represented by the person of Al-Hasan bin Muhammad bin Sama’ah, on the legacy of the Imami, by collecting his narrations in the book Al-Kafi with its three sections (fundamentals - beliefs - branches - jurisprudence - and Rawda); Because it is one of the main sources for extracting doctrinal and jurisprudential narratives, and then reviewing the evaluations of the chains of transmission of the narratives transmitted by Al-Hasan bin Muhammad bin Sama’a, and in which books, to demonstrate the impact he left on our narrative heritage by being one of the faces and scholars of the Waqifa.