Historical, Tabular and Intratextual Reinvestigation of Theory of Razavi Islamic Jurisprudence Compilation by Imam Reza (A.S.)

Razavi Islamic Jurisprudence book which is an influential work on Imamie Islamic Jurisprudence communities, is known as a compilation written by Imam Reza (A.S.) according to several historical evidences in the Islamic Jurisprudential sources and bibliographies such as: the finder reporting and the original version reciprocating, access to old manuscripts by emphasizing the writing of the book by Imam Reza (A.S.), exclusion of the possibility of fabrication and forgery in the intellectual monopoly of the book written by Imam Reza (A.S.) or its fallacious and fabrication; or by resorting to documents list such as: introducing a version of the book narrators of Imam Reza (A.S.) on Shia sources list, and referring to intratextual evidences compiled by one of the Imams (A.S.) and intratextual evidences compiled by Imam Reza (A.S.). In the present study, after reinvestigating the history of accessing this work and explaining the reasons and evidences mentioned, as well as validating the criticisms of the opponents of this theory, and analyzing misleading and acceptable criticisms in an analytical-descriptive style, the certainty of citations proposition to prove the theory of the writing of Razavi Islamic Jurisprudence by Imam Reza (A.S.) has been critically rethought and it was concluded that resorting to these reasons and evidences to all facts affecting the analysis and understanding of the author's work have been neglected. On the other hand, excluding the handwriting of Imam Reza (A.S.) from this book, it is impossible to consider it as a unique work attributed to a single author.