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The solidarity of Shiite’s legal doctrines is due to the incessant
efforts of religious jurists and others in this field. The issue of the narrator's conditions" is one of the most pivotal discussions, determinant in acceptance or rejection of a narration. The present article will study the condition of "faith" or "religion". It shows that in providing or in undertaking this relatively new condition, there is no agreement even among the Twelver shi'ite precedents. That is because there exist numerous narrators among the Shi'ites from sects other than the Twelve one. Though many authorities disagree on their authenticities, in practice, many jurists - most of whom were well¬learned in the science of narration and well aware of this condition ¬
passed judgment and issued their decrees depending on these narrations.