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Sheikh Ja'afar was assassinated in his mosque during Subh prayer in the northern city of Kano in April 2007. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Opinions were split at that time regarding the perpetrators of the crime. While some said that Boko Haram , an extremist organisation, killed the sheikh, others said that Mr. Shekarau, the governor of Kano at the time, may ...
Kitab al-Jafr (Arabic: كِتاب ٱلْجَفْر, romanized: Kitāb al-Jafr) is a mystical book which, in the Shia belief, contains esoteric teachings of the Islamic prophet Muhammad for his cousin and son-in-law Ali, who is recognized as the fourth Rashidun caliph (r.
The Jaʿfarī school, [a] also known as the Jafarite school, Jaʿfarī fiqh (Arabic: الفقه الجعفري) or Ja'fari jurisprudence, is a prominent school of jurisprudence (fiqh) within Twelver and Ismaili (including Nizari) [1] Shia Islam, named after the sixth Imam, Ja'far al-Sadiq. [2]
Grand Ayatollah Jafar Sobhani (Persian: جعفر سبحانی; born 9 April 1929) [1] is an Iranian Twelver Shia marja, influential theologian and writer. Sobhani was a former member of the Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom and founder of Imam Sadiq Institute in Qom .
Ja'far ibn Muḥammad ibn Ali al-Sadiq was born in Medina around 700 CE, and 702 is given in most sources, according to Gleave. [1] Ja'far was the eldest son of Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Bāqir, [11] the fifth Shīʿīte Imam, who was a descendant of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Muhammad's cousin and son-in-law, and Fāṭima, Muhammad's daughter.
Man lā Yaḥḍuruhu al-Faqīh (Arabic: مَنْ لَا يَحْضُرُه ٱلْفَقِيه, lit. 'He Who has no Jurisprudent' with Him) is a Hadith collection by the famous Twelver Shia Hadith scholar Abu Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn ʿAli ibn Babawayh al-Qummi, commonly known as Ibn Babawayh or Sheikh al-Saduq (lit.
Tafsir-e-Uthmani by Mahmud Hasan Deobandi and Shabir Ahmad Usmani has been translated as: The Glorious Qur'an based on the Tafsir-e-'Uthmani translated and edited by the teachers of Madrasah Ayesha Siddiqua, Karachi. Al-Bushra Publishers; Tafsir-e-Uthmani translated by Mohammad Ashfaq Ahmad, Idara Impex, India; Ma'ariful Quran by Muhammad Shafi ...
The personal relationship of the dā‘ī and his students, portrayed so vividly by Ja'far ibn Mansur al-Yaman in his work, would decisively influence the sheikh-murīd bond of later Sufi orders. With the rise of the Fatimid Caliphate in the first quarter of the tenth century CE, the Isma'ilis identified these caliphs with their imams.