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               124  International Multi. J. of PURE LIFE. 8 (27): 109-140, Summer 2021
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               cannot  be  the  criterion  and          In addition, doing so means
               measure of the correctness and        invoking “no authority”, which is
               invalidity  of  narrations  and       rationally ugly. (Javadi Amoli,
               hadiths; for the appearances of       2019: 102)

               the Quran can be considered as
               evidence  when,  first,  it  is           C. Hadiths        Denying
               proved  the  verse,  which  is               Distortion
               considered  as  a  scale,  belongs    Many  narrations  have  been
               to  Quran,  and  there  is  no        narrated  from  the  infallible
               possibility  that  the  verse  is     Imams that have approved the

               other than God; Secondly, there       soundness  of  the  Quran  from
               is no possibility of deleting and     distortion, either emphatically
               abrogating  the  verses  that  are    or  implicitly;  among  the
               involved  in  the  meaning  and       following  narrations  narrated
               significance of the verses.           by  Ali  ibn  Salem  from  his
                  Therefore,  such  narrations       father  that  in  response  to  his
               indicates that according to the       question  about  the  Holy

               Infallible Imams, the Quran in        Quran, Imam Sadiq said:
               the  hands  of  Muslims  is  the             “Lo!      those     who
               same Quran that was revealed                 disbelieve in the Reminder
               to the Messenger of God  and                 when  it  cometh  unto
               no distortion has been made in               them  (are  guilty),  for
               it; otherwise, it could not be a             lo! it is an unassailable

               reference for distinguishing between         Scripture. falsehood cannot
               true  and  false  narrations  for            approach it, at present
               Muslims. (Taheri Khorramabadi,               or    in     future,   a
               2008: 129-130)                               [revelation  gradually]
                                                            sent  down  from  One
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