A textual-documental study of Imams(AS) infallibility traditions

Infallibility traditions which are in the Shiite Hadith Valid books such as “Alkafi, Maani-ol Akhbar, Alkhesal, and Alkefayat-ol-Asar” have been discussed by a textual-documentary study in this paper. It concluded that the most important document of infallibility of Imams (AS) is Quranic texts and traditions which Shiite (the twelvers) are agreed with them. The main purpose of this paper is to study traditions which there are the word “infallibility: in them. They are about 47 Hadiths. By omitting repetitive Hadiths, they decrease to 15 Hadiths. Generally, it can be said that according to Shiite authorities’ opinions, narrators are valid and reliable in most document of infallibility traditions. Although a few of them are not valid, some of these unknown narrators are in the “Kamel-al-ziarat”. Since in the introduction of this book “Ibn Gholouyeh” has introduced all of narrators of the book as reliable ones, we can view some level of reliability for them. Among these traditions, most Hadiths are “Moanan” included valid and reliable Hadiths. We can conclude that it is necessary to be an infallibles one. As a result, it showed that these features just belong to infallible Imams (AS) and Ahlul-Bayt of the prophet (SA).