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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.
The Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq Mosque is one of the oldest mosques in Kuwait, [6] [7] located in the Sawabir district in Sharq area, which is a part of the Capital Governorate. [8] The mosque is attended mainly by Shia Muslim worshippers.
Ja'far al-Sadiq was acknowledged leader (Imam) of the Shia and head of the Ahl al-Bayt. A highly accomplished theologian, Ja'far tutored Abu Hanifa, who would go on to found the Hanafi madhhab ("school of jurisprudence"), the largest Sunni legal school practiced today; Malik ibn Anas, founder of the Maliki Sunni madhhab; and Wasil ibn Ata, who founded the Muʿtazila theology.
Muhammad ibn Ja'far al-Sadiq (Arabic: محمد بن جعفر الصادق, romanized: Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq), surnamed al-Dībāj (Arabic: الديباج, lit. 'the handsome'), [ 1 ] was a son of the sixth Shi'a imam , Ja'far al-Sadiq , who led a failed revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate in 815.
Ja'far us Sadiq Imaduddin (Arabic: جـعفـرُ ٱلصَّـادِق عِمـادُ ٱلدِّيـن) or Jafar us Sadiq Mufaddal Saifuddin, is the eldest son of Mufaddal Saifuddin, [1] [2] the current incumbent of the office of the 53rd Dawoodi Bohra Da'i al-Mutlaq, [3] and the grandson of Mohammed Burhanuddin.
The first mention of al-Jafr is often associated with Ja'far al-Sadiq (d. 765), the sixth of the Twelve Imams. [11] [2] In popular culture, the book is mentioned in the storyline of One Thousand and One Nights, and a description of it is offered by the linguist Richard F. Burton (d. 1890) in his supplement to the book. [1]
Police are searching for a gunman who fatally shot an imam outside his mosque in Newark, New Jersey, on Wednesday, an incident that heightened fears in the Muslim community amid increased tension ...
Isma'il ibn Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-Mubarak's birth date is unknown, but apparently he was the second son of Ja'far al-Sadiq, born between 80 and 83/699–702. [2] [6] His mother, Fatima bint al-Husayn al-Athram ibn al-Hasan ibn Ali, was the first wife of al-Sadiq. [a] Her mother was Asma, daughter of Aqil ibn Abi Talib. [7]