معرفت کلامی

Mulla Sadra has presented a special theory about the immortality or kholud of the torment of hellish people and he tries to argue for it and document it by Islamic traditions. These narrations were used by Ibn Arabi and others before him, and Mulla Sadra was under his influence in this regard. Using a "descriptive-analytical" method, this study tries to critically analyze the narrative evidence of Mulla Sadra in ending the punishment of the sinners in hell. According to the findings of the research, narratives are evaluated in both external criticism and internal criticism. Considering the external criticism, I will clarify that the narrations are very weak (za’if) in terms of their sources and documents. Considering the internal criticism, and classifying the narrations into three categories (Quranic verses, hadiths, and reason), I will show that the hadiths that imply the termination of punishment and the negation of kholud for everyone, are rejected due to their contradiction with Quranic verses of Kholud. There are two types of narrations (general narrations and special narrations) which oppose to Mulla Sadra's narrative evidence. Narrations are criticized for some rational reasons as well.