This is a false allegation on Al-Majlisi fabricated by our enemies who always try to put false allegations on us. Tahreef claims and narrations are in Sunni books from Ayesha who claimed that many verses were lost because it was eaten by an animal (Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal 6: 269 and Sunan Ibn Maajah 1: 625)
, and narrated from Umar ibn al-Khattab who claimed that Sura Al-Azhaab was as long as Sura Al-Baqarah.(Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal 5:132 and Al-Mustadrak Alal- Saheehayn by Al-Haakim al-Nisabori 4:359).
Tahreef claim is refuted in our main books written by our leading Shia Ulama like Shaikh Al-Sadouq, Shaikh Al-Mufeed, Allama Al-Hilli, Shaikh Al-Tousi, Al-Shareef Al-Murtadha, Al-Shaikh Al-Tabarsi, Al-Shaikh Al-Bahaare, Al-Shaikh Kashif Al-Ghitaa', Al-Sayyed Sharaf Al Deen, Sayyed Al-Khoei and other great Shia Ulama. Al-Majlisi never said that Tahreef took place in Quran but he said that some people diverted the meanings of some verse from its real meanings. If fact Shaikh Majlisi stated clearly that Quran can never be distorted as Allah Has preserved Quran from adding on it or omitting from it or changing any word of it or any Tahreef. ( Bihar Al- Anwar, volume 9, page 113).
Other than the holy Quran, we do not have a book that is completely authentic, from cover to cover. Even our early hadith books like al-Kafi, etc, are to be individually evaluated and scrutinised by experts of hadith grading.
The great book Bihar al-Anwar, by al-'Allamah al-Majlisi (q.s.) is no exemption as well. As for percentage or proportion, that cannot be defined as a whole, because each scholar could have different methodology of grading authenticity, and other related issues to hadith grading.
Allama Mohammad Baqir al-Majlisi is a great scholar in the Hadeeth sciences and he compiled the well known collection of Hadeeth in his famous book Biharul Anwaar. He has written others books as well. His grading is according to his own research and Ejtihaad. Other scholars have their grading which can be like or different from his grading as all the Mujahid scholars are free in their research in the narrators and narrations.
Al-Kaafi book has the most authentic collection of narrations of Hadeeth but we don't say that every narration in al-Kaafi is equally authentic. The expert scholars have their right to study and verify every narration.
It is the consensus of the Shi'a scholars that there is no distortion in the Qur'an. You can read more about this topic in the article below that gives references to the statements of a variety of scholars.
A famous scholar Ayatullah Sayyid Abu'l Qasim al-Khu'i has a detailed discussion around this topic in his book that you can also go through for a more in-depth treatment of this subject.
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