Role of Ancient Central Asia in Dissemination of Shiite Hadith

The author of the present paper tries to retell the history of Shiite hadith during the first five centuries in parts of central Asia (Transoxiana). To do so, he studies the key factors — which play an important role in the history of hadith in this region — and investigate them separately. These factors are as follows: number of hadith reporters, hadith meetings, hadith books and their contents, connection with other hadith schools, their hadith interactions with the people of that region. Since this region – which has been located in the east of Islamic world – is very large, it has seen many ups and downs. While investigating these factors much importance has been attached to the elements of time and geographical area.