Documentary Research and the Semantic Range of the Narration “Innama al-A’mal bi-al-Niyyat” (the base of the act is its intention) from the perspective of Two Major Islamic Sects

The narration of “Innama al-A’mal bi-al-Niyyat” is a narration that Shia and Sunni jurists have used in various chapters of jurisprudence and have cited it in several issues. This narration is challenged and questioned in two dimensions; One is from chain of document and the other is from the point of view of content. Although many works have been written about these two dimensions, but less has been done to examine the document and explain its semantic scope in a comparative way and to determine the stronger meaning by citing evidences. This article aims to use a descriptive-analytical method, using a library method, while discussing and examining its documents from the perspective of Two Major Islamic Sects, to investigate its possibilities and semantic scope, and to determine the strongest possibility with the assistance of numerous clues and evidences. The findings of this research indicate that the narration is authentic and acceptable in terms of issuance as a document based on the school of issuance trustworthiness by combining evidences such as narrative reputation, practical reputation, agreement with authentic narrations, spiritual or abstract massive report. In terms of the content, which has many possibilities, the possibility that what is meant by it is a comprehensive concept and what the scholars have said as the meaning and meaning of the narration is an example of it, seems stronger.