Day 4

The lesson

1. Al-Ziyara al-Jami'a al-Kabira, which may be recited for any of the Imams, near their graves or far away, is narrated from him: he taught it to a companion at his request (Man La Yahduruhu al-Faqih of al-Shaykh al-Saduq; Tahdhib al-Ahkam of al-Shaykh al-Tusi), through Musa ibn Abd Allah al-Nakha'i. It opens: Peace be upon you, O Household of Prophethood and place of the Message. Al-Allama al-Majlisi called it the most complete ziyara, from near or far (Zad al-Ma'ad).
2. In a long treatise narrated by Ibn Shu'ba al-Harrani, he made the Qur'an the measure by which hadith are judged, the one text every Muslim group refers to (Tuhaf al-Uqul). When the dispute over whether the Qur'an is created or eternal was dividing the Muslims, he wrote to one of the Shia to take neither side in it (al-Amali of al-Shaykh al-Saduq).
3. More than twenty narrations from him uphold God's transcendence above any likeness to His creation, and a treatise of his explains from the Qur'an the teaching of Imam al-Sadiq: neither compulsion nor delegation, but a matter between the two (Musnad al-Imam al-Hadi).

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