The Role of Yaqtyn family on Shiite Hadith Trend

Fateme Jafarnia[1]

Abstract

The presence of Shiite families contemporary with the life of Imams and their subsequent influences on Shiite communities are the issues which need to be taken into consideration. These families played influential roles in developing Shiite ideologies and receiving and expanding the Imams’ Islamic and social teachings. They also played important roles in leading political activities. Yaqtyn family was among well-known intellectual and political Shiite families of Kufa (in the middle of the second to third centuries) whose members were close companions and friends of the Imams. Among them were hadith narrators who narrated the sayings of the Imams and jurists who worked on Islamic jurisprudence, commentaries and theology. Academic contributions made by Yaqtyn family in transmission and expansion of the principles of jurisprudence, theology and Shia hadith are noteworthy. Furthermore, this family laid the foundations for authenticity in narrating hadiths. Studying the scientific and cultural contributions of Yaqtyn household is the aim of this research.