“The Textual and Documentary Review of Tohid Mofazzal”

Tohid Mofazzal is one of the famous hadith books that many Islamic scholars have taken it into attention since 11^th AH. Mofazzal Ibn Umar went to see Imam Sadegh (PBUH) after inconclusive debate with Ibn Abi al-Owjā. Imam Sadegh expressed Tohid Mofazzal and he wrote it. Because of some deficiencies in its document and text, this thesis has studied study the document and text of Tohid Mofazzal in four chapters. After giving an outline about the subject in the thesis, it is attempted to study the document of Tohid Mofazzal and the status of Mofazzal Ibn Umar and Mohammad Ibn Sanan, the only Mofazzal Ibn Umar’s narrator. In this chapter the views of Hadith Scholars in the early century’s especially Najashi and other late Hadith Scholars about these two narrators are analyzed. Documentary weakness of Tohid Mofazzal can be proven by studding all reports of Hadith Scholars. In the third chapter, some evidence is provided to prove that this thesis is attributed to Imam Sadegh correctly. The last chapter addresses the evidence of dishonesty about accuracy of attribution in two parts. Some cases reduce the reliability of Tohid Mofazzal like ignorance of theologians and hadith narrators toward this Hadith, the absence of a notable and old version, The emergence of similar texts attributed to others, referring to words of the Greek philosophers, different structure from other traditions of the infallible (Masoums), poor usage of Quranic teachings and literary errors.