Ali Jafari

From among the collection of scattered commentaries on hadiths to Mulla Sadra, the one written on "Kunta kanzan makhfiyyan..." is quite noteworthy. This commentary has most probably been written by Mulla Sadra himself. In this work, he refers to one of the objections advanced against this sacred hadith by some scholars. He also claims that before him, no one has ever given a convincing answer to this objection, and then proceeds to explain the problem and introduces his own four-fold responses, which he claims to have been revealed to him by God.Since at the beginning of this tratise he refers to Muhyaddin Ibn Arabi, in some of its versions, it has wrongly been attributed to him.The writer of this paper, from among the existing versions of this treatise, has tried to edit two versions of collection number 1822 of the library of Majlis-i Shoray-i Islami by means of 'maj V and 'maj 2' codes, following a critical approach.

The presentation of a comprehensive report of all available criticisms and their evaluation will be greatly revealing concerning logicians' methodology and epistemology. Their deliberations and insights concerning the issue of relation and criticizing the inferential principles that are based on this concept, as well as the evaluation of the efficiency of the issue, have appeared in different forms. Conceptual criticisms lead to new conceptualizations, and the posing of contradictory examples for inferential principles consolidates the principles themsleves and, in certain cases, leads to the discovery of new ones. Some of the criticisms in the history of logic are known as logical puzzles. It should be emphasized that in their process of historical development, a lot of responses have been given to such puzzles, and that they have been good targets for a host of objections; however, all the responses and objections have been at the service of merely strengthening their forms of ambiguity or paradox, such as Katibi's Puzzle'.Such criticisms are targeted at the problems and issues related to the field of relation. If these issues are discovered, the pervious research studies, which are each relatod to a specific topic, will continue in a focused line of activity. It goes without saying that studies of this kind possess undeniable advatages in practice in the mould of logical deliberations and criticism.