Document Study of Imam Askari's Miracles Focusing on the Books Al-Kafi and Al-Hidaya Al-Kubra

Miracles for prophets and dignity for imams are actions based on the two elements of knowledge and power and acts contrary to natural habit and inconsistent with the relationship of causality in the system of creation and a concrete sign to establish the prophethood of prophets and the imams’ imamate. Sometimes dignity is referred to as a miracle. Shia scholars have narrated many miracles to imams for a long time, which has been effective in promoting Shia literature, but since some of them are apparently not in line with historical issues, it has caused discussions. This article examines the documents of the miracles of Imam Hassan Askari in the oldest Shia works with a large volume, via a historical method, and according to the description and analysis based on historical documents, the studies of the personality of the narrators and paying attention to the narrators’ currents of thought in order to get closer to the reality of the events, it has been shown that a lot of the news of Koleyni (329 AH) and Khasibi (358 AH) from the life of Imam Askari are dedicated to his miracles. News that despite the fact that the two authors are contemporaneous and share the principle of miracle writing, their narrators and narrations are different.