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PhD student in Quran and Hadith Sciences, University of Quran and Hadith, Qom, Iran.
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Assistant Professor, Hadith Department, University of Quran and Hadith, Qom, Iran.
10.22034/hsr.2025.52124.1097
Abstract
In Shi'i culture, the pilgrimage of the impeccable Imams (AS), particularly the pilgrimage of Ḥusayn ibn Ali (AS) in Karbala, receives serious attention, and his devotees dedicate significant time and resources to it annually. This attention stems from the numerous virtues mentioned in narrative sources concerning his pilgrimage. Some of these virtues, when compared to the reward for certain obligatory acts of worship, are expressedin a manner that is not readily acceptable. Consequently, some deem these narrations of virtues to be exaggerative and consider the narrators of such traditions to be Ghulāt (exaggerators). Given the significant role of extremist exaggeration and Ghālī themes in distorting doctrines and beliefs, a precise and scholarly investigation of the matter was deemed necessary to ascertain the reality of the issue. The oldest narrative source that has extensively transmitted the narrations on the virtues of pilgrimage is the book Kāmil al-Zīyārāt by Ibn Qūlawayh. The present study, conducted through a library-based methodology and a descriptive-analytical approach to examining the narrations, demonstrates that based on both the principles of documentary validation and rational assessment, the issuance of narrations containing these great virtues from the impeccable Imams is definitive.Furthermore, the suspicion of attributing the aforementioned narrations to the Ghulāt is an incorrect hypothesis. Moreover, over 60% of the primary narrators of the aforementioned traditions are verified as trustworthy Imamis.
Mousavi, S. . J., & Masjedi, H. (2026). Narrations Validating of the Great Virtues of the Pilgrimage of Imam Ḥusayn (AS), and a Critique of the Hypothesis of Their Attribution to the Ghulāt. Hadith Studies and Researches, (), -. doi: 10.22034/hsr.2025.52124.1097
MLA
Sayyid Javad Mousavi; Heydar Masjedi. "Narrations Validating of the Great Virtues of the Pilgrimage of Imam Ḥusayn (AS), and a Critique of the Hypothesis of Their Attribution to the Ghulāt". Hadith Studies and Researches, , , 2026, -. doi: 10.22034/hsr.2025.52124.1097
HARVARD
Mousavi, S. . J., Masjedi, H. (2026). 'Narrations Validating of the Great Virtues of the Pilgrimage of Imam Ḥusayn (AS), and a Critique of the Hypothesis of Their Attribution to the Ghulāt', Hadith Studies and Researches, (), pp. -. doi: 10.22034/hsr.2025.52124.1097
VANCOUVER
Mousavi, S. . J., Masjedi, H. Narrations Validating of the Great Virtues of the Pilgrimage of Imam Ḥusayn (AS), and a Critique of the Hypothesis of Their Attribution to the Ghulāt. Hadith Studies and Researches, 2026; (): -. doi: 10.22034/hsr.2025.52124.1097
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