Islam and its History and Impact of Prophet Muhammad(PBUH)

[Mystic]

Thanks for the answer!

You welcome.

There is a lot to be said about this subject. One thing that I trust Shia hadiths more then Sunnis, is that Sunni traditions are oral and we know Chinese whispers can ruin things pretty bad. 

This is while Imams told their followers to write hadiths in books, and shias narrations are book to book to book....so it's not simply oral. The narrator meets the narrator and takes narrations from books.

The Sunnis on the other hand, it was mainly oral...so they put more emphasis on memory and other things, while Shias don't.

Also you may forget a narrator or who exactly you narrated it from, if it's orally, but the same is not true, if you are taking it from a written book.

There is a lot to study about this issue. I just wanted to point out Shias is not oral passing on, but written book to book.