A Critique of Allamah Shooshtari's View on Falsity of Some of the Traditions on the Quran Commentary Ascribed to Imam Hassan Askari (peace be upon him)

A Quran's commentary has to be based on "commentary sources". Commentary sources are those sources which provide the commentator with the necessary ways of recognizing the meaning and intent of Quranic verses. One of the most important commentary sources are the traditions related from holy Prophet's household (peace be upon them), including a commentary ascribed to Imam Hassan Askari. The present paper reviews and criticizes 'Allamah Shooshtari's views on a number of traditions narrated in this commentary and proves that although the reasons cited by Shooshtari – including single narration of a tradition in the Shiite commentary source ascribed to Imam Hassan 'Askari not in general sources, literal interpretation of a tradition, the content of a tradition itself regardless of its following accounts, and improbability of the content of a tradition- render the issuing of these traditions less reliable, they cannot be used to prove that these traditions are fabricated and substantiate the claim that all the content of commentary ascribed to Imam Hassan 'Askari is fabricated.