Faqīh (فقيه)(pl. fuqahāʾ)(فقهاء)

The Jurist

وعن محمد بن سعيد الكشي ، عن محمد بن أحمد بن حماد المروزي المحمودي ، يرفعه ، قال : قال الصادق (عليه السلام): اعرفوا منازل شيعتنا بقدر ما يحسنون من رواياتهم عنا ، فانا لا نعد الفقيه منهم فقيها حتى يكون محدثا ، فقيل له : أو يكون المؤمن محدثا ؟ قال : يكون مفهما ، والمفهم : المحدث

And from Muhammad Bin Saeed Al Kashy, from Muhammad Bin Ahmad Bin Hamaad Al Maruzy Al Mahmoudy, with a chain going up to Al Sadiq-asws, said:

‘Recognise the status of our-asws Shiites in accordance with how many good narrations they relate from us-asws, for we do not consider the ‘الفقيه’ ‘Faqeeh’ from them to be a Faqeeh unless they are narrators of Ahadith’. It was said to him-asws, ‘Is a believer a narrator of Ahadith?’

He-asws said: ‘He is an understanding one; and the understanding one is a narrator of Ahadith’.[1]


[1] Wasail ul Shia, H. 33453

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