It is sometimes said that most of the hadiths of Kafi are inauthentic and unacceptable and as a result, super-human powers such as knowledge of the unseen cannot be attributed to them. Sheikh Hasan bin Zayd al-Din is proof of this claim. He believes that the authentic hadiths of Kafi are about one fifth of that which exists therein. Are such statistics accurate?

What those scholars who have counted the number of authentic hadiths meant when they said ‘authentic’, is in terms of the science of rijal and they had no intention to narrow things down in fiqhi and intellectual discussions, because in the view of those same scholars of the past and today, the criterion for the authenticity of a hadith isn't limited only to the reliability of the narrator, rather, the criteria for the authenticity and acceptability of a hadith is broader than that; anything that brings us to certitude regarding the authenticity of a hadith is what matters, not only the reliability of the narrator. This is in accordance with the methodology of past scholars; they would call any hadith they were sure had been issued by an infallible to be authentic, meaning that after assessing the chain and content of a hadith, if they became sure that it is from an infallible, they would deem it authentic and categorize it as ‘sahih’. .

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