Shaykh Mohammad Reza Hemyari at the ICAIR Conference 2025, Jaffari Community Centre, Toronto.
Speaker
Shaykh Mohammad Reza Hemyari was born in Iran, and grew up in the Northern Virginia area. After receiving an MA in Religion from the George Washington University, he began his seminary studies in Najaf, Iraq. In 2014, he moved to the Chicagoland area to continue his studies at the Ahl al-Bayt Islamic Seminary in Streamwood. He is currently pursuing further seminary studies in Qom, Iran, and is completing a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago.
In this talk
- 0:00 · Introduction and Topic Overview: Hadith Authentication
- 1:51 · The Time Gap Between the Imams and Surviving Hadith Books
- 4:13 · Early Concerns About Forged Hadith and Criteria for Acceptance
- 7:22 · Key Questions in Evaluating Hadith Reports
- 10:05 · Why Hadith Reliability Matters for Practice and Guidance
- 13:08 · Wudu in the Qur’an: An Example of Interpretive Ambiguity
- 18:08 · Debate, Reason, and Referring Back to the Imam
- 23:03 · Main Methods Used to Authenticate Hadith
- 31:49 · Chain of Narrators as a Verification Method
- 35:04 · Books, Written Transmission, and Scholarly Practice
- 39:18 · Community Consensus and Holistic Evaluation of Hadith
- 42:52 · Summary and Closing Remarks