Ja'far al-Sadiq

Ja'far al-Sadiq

Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-Sadiq (Arabic: جَعْفَر بْن مُحَمَّد ٱلصَّادِق, romanized: Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣādiq; c. 702–765 CE) was a Shia Muslim scholar, jurist, and theologian, and the sixth imam of the Twelver and Isma'ili branches of Shia Islam. Known by the title al-Sadiq ("The Truthful"), Ja'far was the founder of the Ja'fari school of Islamic jurisprudence. The hadith recorded from al-Sadiq and his predecessor, Muhammad al-Baqir, are said to be more numerous than all the hadith preserved from the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the other Shia imams combined. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ja'far al-Sadiq has received more than 2,080,720 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Ja'far al-Sadiq is the 10th most popular astronomer (up from 14th in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Saudi Arabia (up from 20th in 2019) and the most popular Saudi Arabian Astronomer.

Ja'far al-sadiq is most famous for being the sixth imam of the Shia.