Historical Thought and Reliance on History in the Traces of Allamah Al-Hilli

الفکر التأریخي والاستناد إلی التاریخ في آثار العلّامة‌ الحلّي

Abstract

Historical investigations were limited to the theological writings of Allama al-Hilli (d. 726 AH), he did not use beliefs and theological issues to solve historical issues, and most of his historical bases were in the position of proving issues from the origins of religion, and he did not take the single news and the narrations that provoke discussion except in matters not related to the origins of beliefs such as issues related to the origins of religion. Marginal or colloquial beliefs, and in the religion beliefs related to the origins of that require a reliable document, he stuck to customary rational inferences in few sources, and most of his documents were frequent news.
He believed that the unanimity of scholars on the transmission of a report or the interpretation of a verse is in the same way as frequency, and given the foundations that prevent historical cases from being proven by single narrations, Allama al-Hilli used this expanded definition of frequency in order to find a solution in historical references.
key words:
Al Allamah Al Hilli, History, the single news. Kashf Almurad