After 1,200 years of scholarship, the majority position of Twelver Shi’ite maraji‘ (sources of emulation) is clear:
: Some argue the Imam was correcting Zurarah's use of personal reasoning to ensure the purity of the school of Ahl al-Bayt remained centered on divine revelation rather than human opinion. Rijal Al Kashi Report 176
Sunni and Shi’a authorities have jointly condemned Report 176 as a Safavid-era forgery. Yet, the ink carbon-dating (performed by a private lab in Berlin in 2016) placed the parchment at 980 CE, plus or minus 35 years—the exact lifetime of Al-Kashi. After 1,200 years of scholarship, the majority position
Yunus ibn Abd al-Rahman was a fierce advocate of the 12-Imam doctrine. He reportedly debated and refuted Zaydi claims in the court of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid. Thus, Hasan ibn Faddal’s refusal to narrate from Yunus is equivalent to a political opponent refusing to cite a rival’s sources. Yunus ibn Abd al-Rahman was a fierce advocate