The Jurisprudential Rule of Teaching Hadith

The Quran and tradition are the most important sources of knowledge in Islam. In the period of the infallible (AS) and in the Islamic education system until before the period of formal education, preference and priority was given to teaching Quran and hadith. Unfortunately, in the present age, formal education has been laid out and designed with complete disregard for educational preferences and educational theoretical principles of Islam as a consequence of which the sayings and traditions of the infallible imams have been practically neglected. Any efforts to Islamize the schools would require the theoretical principles for teaching Islamic sciences including hadith sciences to be explained. In this article, first with reliance on the deduction method characteristic of Jawaher al-Kalam the concept and need for teaching hadith have been explained in the generalities section. Thereupon, the corroborating reasons and arguments have been scrutinized. It has been concluded at the end that teaching hadith is highly recommended per se and that priority should be given to it regardless of the circumstances but it is likely that the Islamic law about teaching hadith may change into one of the five legal values or qualifications.