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Ibn Babawayh

918 - 992

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Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn Babawayh al-Qummi (Persian: محمد بن علی بن بابَوَیْهِ قمی Arabic: أَبُو جَعْفَر مُحَمَّد ٱبْن عَلِيّ ٱبْن بَابَوَيْه ٱلْقُمِيّ; c. 923–991), commonly referred to as Ibn Babawayh (Persian: ابن‌ بابویه Arabic: ٱبْن بَابَوَيْه) or al-Shaykh al-Saduq (Persian: شیخ صدوق Arabic: ٱلشَّيْخ ٱلصَّدُوق, lit. 'the truthful scholar'), was a Persian Shia Islamic scholar whose work, entitled Man La Yahduruhu al-Faqih (مَنْ لَا یَحْضُرُهُ ٱلْفَقِیهُ), forms part of The Four Books of the Shia Hadith collection. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ibn Babawayh has received more than 134,037 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Ibn Babawayh is the 932nd most popular religious figure (up from 1,072nd in 2019), the 157th most popular biography from Iran (up from 168th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Iranian Religious Figure.

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  • 60.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Ibn Babawayh ranks 932 out of 3,187. Before him are Gerolamo Emiliani, Otto of Bamberg, Khwaja Abdullah Ansari, Paula of Rome, Lars Levi Laestadius, and Antipope Clement VIII. After him are William Miller, Lucifer of Cagliari, Antipope Innocent III, Wasil ibn Ata, Odilo of Cluny, and Paolo Giovio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 918, Ibn Babawayh ranks 2. Before him is Haakon the Good.  Among people deceased in 992, Ibn Babawayh ranks 2. Before him is Mieszko I of Poland. After him are Jawhar, Leo the Deacon, Conan I of Rennes, Abu al-Hassan al-Amiri, Matilda of France, and Oswald of Worcester.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Ibn Babawayh ranks 157 out of 631. Before him are Dariush Mehrjui (1939), Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni (864), Amytis of Media (-630), Al-Khazini (1077), Al-Karaji (953), and Vologases IV (150). After him are Zakariya al-Qazwini (1203), Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (1236), Shapour Bakhtiar (1914), Vologases VI (200), Sharafkhan Bidlisi (1543), and Ashraf Pahlavi (1919).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Iran

Among religious figures born in Iran, Ibn Babawayh ranks 19. Before him are Piruz Nahavandi (700), Safi-ad-din Ardabili (1252), `Abdu'l-Bahá (1844), Al-Juwayni (1028), Al-Bayhaqi (994), and Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni (864). After him are Shaykh Tusi (995), Al-Hakim al-Nishapuri (933), Ibn Khuzayma (838), Mohammad-Baqer Majlesi (1627), Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli (854), and Aga Khan II (1830).

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