Validation of the Narration Indicating the Virtue Ethics

Measuring the validity and context of issuing a text to obtain its issuance by the Infallibles is an important issue throughout the history of hadith studies, So that ensuring the issuance of hadith leads to the establishment of correct epistemological-moral principles in religious teachings. In the meantime, the narrations that in first place convey the similarity with texts of the Greek sages to the mind, are of great importance for validation. One of them is a narration which considers “virtues” as four characteristics in general and mentions the strength of each of them, which inevitably bears many similarities between it and Greek wisdoms. The establishment of this conceptual similarity creates a reading such as “Transcription of said hadith from Greek wisdoms” and “the lack of authenticity of the hadith due to the existence of single origins “.Therefore, the efforts of this paper are to evaluate the issuing ground of this narrative for obtain its issuance and verification of its similarity with Greek texts of wisdoms, which is based on descriptive method in collecting and analyzing intra-textual and extra-textual approaches. The product of integrated attitude in validation obtains non-issuance, so that the evaluation of “conceptual history of words” shows that the words of this hadith are not consistent with the common style of narrative literature, so it`s not possible for the user to reconstruct the said text. Also, the conceptual difference between words and semantic similarities with ethical books in the same age with the first source of this narrative has reduced the confidence of issuance.