The Role of Shiite Scholars in Organizing Knowledge in the Science of Hadith

Muslim scholars, especially Shiite scholars, have presented a new reading of the sciences of ancient civilizations in the light of their new religious worldview, in parallel to the production of knowledge. They have organized knowledge to preserve them. In the field of Islamic wisdom, there has been a great deal of efforts in the tradition (the promise, action and interpretation of the Masums (AS)), which is one of the primary sources of knowledge of religion and religious teachings after the Holy Quran. Therefore, there is a great deal of hard work among the Shiite scholars in collecting the Hadiths more fully and organizing them better and more thoroughly. In order to fully understand this precious legacy and to identify the correct hadiths from the false ones, Shiite tradition researchers have created some sciences. The present article examines some of the efforts of Shiite scholars in this field with a particular view of organizing knowledge in their major hadith works.