Criteria For Accepting Narrations

بسم الله الواحد القهار

Sheikh Hadi Al-Najafi:

Al-Kulayni: from several of his companions from Ahmad Ibn Mohammad Ibn Khalid from his father from Al-Nadhr Ibn Suwayd from Yahya Al-Halabi from Ayyub Ibn Al-Hurr who said: I heard Aba Abdillah (عليه السلام) saying: "Everything should be compared with the Book (i.e. Qur'an) and the Sunnah, and whatever Hadith which is not in accordance with the Book of Allah then it is false."

The chain of the narration is Sahih (Authentic).

Source: Mawsu'atu Ahadith Ahlalbayt(علیهم السلام), Vol. 5 Pg. 199

Going to Allah through other than the doors He has specified

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Sheikh As-Saduq:

Punishment of going to Allah through other than His doors:

Narrated to me my father, may Allah bless have mercy on him, saying: narrated to me Sa'd Ibn Abdullah from Mohammad Ibn Al-Husain Ibn Abil Khattab from Safwan Ibn Yahya from Is'haq Ibn Ghalib from Abi Abdillah As-Sadiq (عليه السلام) who said: "A monk from Bani Israel worshipped Allah so much that he became like a dry stick. Allah, the Mighty and Sublime revealed to His prophet of that time to go and say to him that (Allah says), “By My Greatness, Might and Power, even if you worship Me till you melt like something in the cooking pot, also, I will not accept it from you until you come to Me from the door that I have ordered you to come to me.”

Footnote: and its chain is of the most authentic chains, its narrators are trustworthy and prominent and significant scholars and of the pillars in transmitting narrations.

Source: Iqaab Al-A'maal, Ch.1, Pg.5, H. 1