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Question:What is the word of Sunnite scholars about the reliability of Hamad Ibn Issa and accepting his quotations?
Answer: Abu Ali has remembered Hamad Ibn Issa in his Muntahal Maqal book. And Hasan Ibn Ali Ibn Dawud has mentioned his biography in the book of Mukhtasar which is about the biography of authorities (Rijal). The writers of the lists of the authorities and dictionaries all have counted him as a Shia and all have considered him as a trustful and firm man and one of the companions of infallible leaders (a.s.).
He has heard seventy traditions from Imam Sadiq (a.s.), but has not quoted more than twenty traditions of them.
Hamad Ibn Issa has some books that the Shia scholars quote them from him through continuous referring.
Once Hamad Ibn Issa came to Imam Kadhim (a.s.) and asked him that: May I be thy ransom! Ask God to give me a home, a wife, a son, a servant and pilgrimage to Mecca in all years of my life. Imam (a.s.) said that: اَللّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلى مُحَمَّد وَ آلِ مُحَمَّد," O, my Lord! Send your greetings to Muhammad and his progeny". O, my God! Give him a home, a wife, a child, a servant and pilgrimage to Mecca fifty times in fifty years.
Hamad Ibn Issa says: When Imam (a.s.) mentioned the condition of fifty times I realized that I can not perform it more than fifty times. now it is forty eight years that I have performed Haj every year, this is also the home that God has given me, that is my wife behind the curtain who listens to me, and this is my son, and that is my servant, all have been given by God.
After this saying he went two years more for performing Haj and his fiftieth Haj became complete.
Next year he went for performing Haj with Abbas Nufali Qasir and when he reached the place of Ihram (Juhfah) and wanted to perform ablution suddenly the plain was inundated and before doing another Haj he was drowned.
He passed away in the year 209. May God bless his soul. He was originally from Kufah but lived in Basrah and lived more than seventy years.
Zahabi has mentioned his name in his Mizanul I'tidal book [vol. 1, p. 598] and has placed the sign of "TQ" beside his name. This sign points to those persons of writers of Sunan books who have quoted his traditions. Then he has said that: He has been drowned in the year 208 and quotes a tradition from Imam Sadiq (a.s.).
Then he criticizes him strongly and attributes an incorrect matter to him that everybody has criticized him for being a Shia.
And it is surprising that Dar Qutni has counted him as a weak person, but he himself has relied on his traditions for reasoning: وَ کَذلِکَ یَفْعَلُونَ "and thus they (always) do."(1)
1- Sayyid Abdul Husain Sharafuddin Musawi, Al-Muraji'at, p. 122.
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