روش ابن غضايري در نقد رجال

Ibn Ghajaʹiri s Methodology in the Criticism of tradition transmitters

The science of wounding and authentication (ilm at jarh we al ta`dil) is a balance for the transmitters of hadith, that if it weighs in their favor, they will be accepted as authentic, otherwise they will be rejected. There has been widespread discussion and much controversy in recent centuries concerning Ibn Ghadaʹiri, one of the earlier great Shiʹite biographers, for his authoring a book in which he has introduced weak and blameworthy transmitters in the field of Shiʹite hadith. Some of his opponents have criticized his method of biographical criticism and accused him of undue debilitation of transmitters of hadith. Dealing with such views, the writer has argued that Ibn Ghadaʹiri has been a specialist in ʹilmal-rijal (scrutiny of transmitters) as per his focus on this single discipline, who has pursued criticism on transmitters with sophisticated deliberation and in terse and prudent words rather than hastily; and has followed the scholarly and consistent method of the ancients and has developed a methodology of criticism.