{"id":16071,"date":"2022-05-28T05:46:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T04:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/?p=16071"},"modified":"2022-05-28T05:46:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T04:46:40","slug":"legacy-imam-sadiq-muslim-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/16071\/legacy-imam-sadiq-muslim-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Legacy of Imam Sadiq (AS) in Muslim World"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u00a0Imam Sadiq (AS) is one of the most influential figures in Islamic sciences in such fields as Fiqh (jurisprudence), Quran interpretation, ethics, geography, economics, astronomy, medicine and mathematics and whose students created a great capacity in the development of religious sciences all over the Muslim world.<\/div>\n
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Jafar ibn Muhammad al-Sadiq, Imam Sadiq (AS), was born on the 17th<\/sup>\u00a0day of the month of Rabi al-Awwal in the year 83 Hijri (702 AD) in Medina. He was known all over the Muslim world in terms of scholarly status and people from different parts of the Islamic world would come to benefit from his knowledge.<\/p>\n

Imam Sadiq (AS) trained many scholars, including Jabir ibn Hayyan, who is known as the father of chemistry. The leaders of Sunni Islam were his students directly or indirectly and have talked about his moral and scholarly character:<\/p>\n

Imam Malik ibn Anas<\/p>\n

Muhammad ibn Ziyad Azudi has quoted Malik ibn Anas as saying about Imam Sadiq (AS), \u201cI did not see him in any other state than saying prayers, fasting or reciting the Quran and he would always talk about good and pure things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ibn Hibban<\/p>\n

Ibn Hajar Al-Asqalani has quoted Ibn Hibban as saying about Imam Sadiq (AS), \u201cI haven\u2019t seen anyone who is more Afqah (more learned) in Fiqh than Jafar ibn Muhammad. He is among the Sadat of Ahl-ul-Bayt (AS) who was Faqih, learned and virtuous and we needed his words.\u201d<\/p>\n

Imam Shafi\u2019i<\/p>\n

Ibn Hajar Al-Asqalani quotes Is\u2019haq ibn Rahuyeh as saying that he asked Shafi\u2019i what he thought of Jafar ibn Muhammad and Shafi\u2019i said: \u201cThiqa\u201d, meaning a very reliable and trusted character.<\/p>\n

Imam Abu Hanifa<\/p>\n

Imam Abu Hanifa was one of the students of Imam Sadiq (AS) who says about him, \u201cI haven\u2019t seen anyone more Faqih and learned than Jafar ibn Muhammad. Once, after speaking with Imam Sadiq (AS), he said, \u201cGod knows better where to place His divine mission. Imam Abu Hanifa has also said, \u201cIf Jafar ibn Muhammad (hadn\u2019t taught them, people would not know how to perform Hajj\u201d.<\/p>\n

Khayr al-Din al-Zirikli<\/p>\n

Khayr al-Din al-Zirikli was a famous Sunni writer. In his book al-Aalam, he writers about Imam Sadiq (AS), \u201cImam Jafar Sadiq has a high status in knowledge and a large number of individuals have learned from him, including two leader of Sunnis, namely Imam Abu Hanifa and Imam Malik. He was known as Sadiq because no one ever heard a lie from him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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