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Ja'far al-Sadiq

702 - 765

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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 1,861,376 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.

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  • 74.58

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  • 60

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Ja'far al-Sadiq has had the most page views in the with 356,308 views, followed by English (342,514), and Persian (216,252). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Kashmiri (305.83%), Korean (154.04%), and Bashkir (122.62%)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Ja'far al-Sadiq ranks 10 out of 644. Before him are Giordano Bruno, Ptolemy, Anders Celsius, Tycho Brahe, William Herschel, and Ulugh Beg. After him are Aristarchus of Samos, Edwin Hubble, Hipparchus, Ole Rømer, Carl Sagan, and Aryabhata.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 702, Ja'far al-Sadiq ranks 1. After him is An Lushan. Among people deceased in 765, Ja'far al-Sadiq ranks 1. After him are Emperor Junnin, and Ceolwulf of Northumbria.

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In Saudi Arabia

Among people born in Saudi Arabia, Ja'far al-Sadiq ranks 19 out of 354. Before him are Hasan ibn Ali (624), Muawiyah I (603), Bilal ibn Rabah (580), Aminah (557), Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703), and Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (1924). After him are Ibn Saud (1875), Hamza ibn Abdul-Muttalib (570), Malik ibn Anas (711), Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib (539), Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (646), and Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin (659).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Saudi Arabia

Among astronomers born in Saudi Arabia, Ja'far al-Sadiq ranks 1. 

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