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SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) -- In view of the then prevailing conducive political atmosphere, Imam Ja‘far as-Sadiq (‘a) pursued his father’s scientific movement and established a large university and center of learning whose horizon reached far and wide. Shaykh al-Mufid says: The knowledge of the Imam (‘a) has been so widely narrated that it became proverbial to various many and its fame spread to every nook and corner. None of the progeny of the Prophet (S) match him (in this…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) -- The sixth Imam, Abu 'Abd Allah Ja'far, the eldest son of Muhammad al-Baqir, was born in Medina either in 80/690 700 or 83/703-704.[641] On his father's side Ja'far was of course a Husaynid descendant of the Prophet, and like his father he had a doubly strong relationship to 'Ali, since Muhammad al-Baqir was an 'Alid on both his father's and his mother's sides.[642] On his mother's side Ja'far was the great-great-grandson of Abu Bakr,[643] and…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) -- On December 4, 765 AD (according to the Gregorian calendar), Imam Ja’far as-Sadeq (AS), the 6th Infallible Heir of Prophet Mohammad (SAWA), was martyred in his hometown Medina through a fatal dose of poison given by Mansour Dawaniqi, the 2nd self-styled caliph of the usurper Abbasid regime. He was twelve years old, when his grandfather, Imam Zain al-Abedin (AS), the Survivor of the heartrending tragedy of Karbala, was martyred through poisoning. At the age of…

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) -- On 17th of the Islamic month of Rabi al-Awwal in 83 AH, Imam Ja'far as-Sadeq (AS), the 6th Infallible Successor of Prophet Mohammad (SAWA) was born in Medina. His period of imamate or divinely-decreed leadership was 34 years, starting in 114 AH at the martyrdom of his father, Imam Mohammad Baqer (AS) and ending in 148 AH with his own martyrdom at the age of 65, as a result of a fatal dose of poisoning…