Recognition of the first Shia’s hadith sources about mahdism with a focus on Nomani’s al-Gheiba and Tusi’s al-Gheiba

The most important benefits of recognizing and retrieve of the first shia’s sources include: Identify trusted books of old shia’s scholars, review of traditions and a narrator’s book, identify various versions and resolving conflict of hadiths. Methods of detecting hadith from written sources include: Pay attention to the original source document in the list sources, repeat the chain of document leading to the author of the book in hadithic sources, matching the subject of the hadiths as the author’s book. Nomani’s al-Gheiba and Sheikh Tusi’s al-Gheiba are two of the most important and oldest Shia sources in the subject of mahdism. Nomani has used books such as Solaim’s book and al-Kafi of Koleini. Nomani’s missing resources include: The writings of Obeidullah ibn Musa alawi, Ali ibn Hassan ibn Fazzal, Mohammad ibn Sanan, Mohammad ibn Ali Seirafi, Hasan ibn Mahboob, ibn Hamam Eskafi, Hassan ibn abi Hamzeh Bataeni, Hassan ibn Mohammad ibn Jomhoor, Abdullah ibn Hammad Ansari, Abdullah ibn Jabaleh, AbdulKarim ibn Amr Khasami, Musa ibn Sadan and others. Sheikh Tusi has also used books such as Solaim’s book, Ali ibn Jafar, al-Kafi of Koleini, al-Gheiba of Nomani, Kamal al-din of Saduq. Sheikh’s missing resources also include: The writings of Fazl ibn Shazan, Yaqub ibn Noaim, Saad ibn Abdullah Ashari, Shalmaghani, Ali ibn Ahmad Alawi Mousavi, ibn Nooh Syrafi and others. In this study, based on some evidence, of the 478 hadiths of Nomani’s al-Gheiba, source of 439 narration was identified, of which 85 were narrated from two available sources and 354 hadiths of the 21 missing resources were quoted; Of the 493 hadiths of Sheikh Tusi’s al-Gheiba, source of 313 narration was identified, of which 82 were narrated from five available sources and 231 hadiths of the eight missing sources have been taken. Nomani and Tusi have also narrated other hadiths that we do not know the source of them; It seems that they have heard these traditions directly from their professors.