{"id":4060,"date":"2019-08-18T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-09-14T12:37:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T11:37:14","slug":"imam-jafar-as-sadiq-and-the-shia-school-of-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/4060\/imam-jafar-as-sadiq-and-the-shia-school-of-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Imam Ja\u2018far as-Sadiq and the Shi\u2019a School of Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"

QUESTION: <\/strong><\/span>Was Imam Ja\u2018far as-Sadiq (peace be upon him) the founder of the Shi\u2018a school or its promulgator and explainer?
\nANSWER: <\/strong><\/span>Imam as-Sadiq (peace be upon him) acquainted the public with the original Shi\u2018a school of thought, which perhaps even some friends and devotees of Ahl al-Bait (peace be upon them) had not recognized properly. By establishing that vast school of knowledge, he familiarized the people with the realities of true Islam, which are fulfilled by following \u2018Ali and the Ahl al-Bait (peace be upon them). This was while in the periods before Imam as-Sadiq (peace be upon him) the opportunity for disseminating knowledge was not to the extent that it reached in his time.
\nThis does not mean that Imam Ja\u2018far as-Sadiq (peace be upon him) is the founder of Shi\u2018a thought, since as explained earlier Shi\u2018a thought existed in the time of the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) in an organized and systematic manner. Mutawatir traditions and the illuminating guidance of the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) had specified its limits, and passage of time and occurrences had no share in its development. Of course, these affairs had an influence in its propagation, promulgation, and organization in later periods, especially in the time of Imam as-Sadiq (peace be upon him) and Imam al-Baqir (peace be upon him), and in fact these very incidents made more clear the truth of this school of thought as opposed to the opposing school of thought.
\nOne of the reasons for the success of Shi\u2018a thought in the issue of Imamah was that during the rule of Banu Umayyah the people witnessed conduct and actions of the claimants to succession of the Prophet (peace be upon him and his family) which were incompatible with any of the Islamic laws and principles.
\nThis conduct even became a cause for the people\u2019s rebellion against them in different instances, though most of these rebellions were quelled by force and in appearance the government of Banu \u2018Umayyah continued, but overall these events caused the Shi\u2018a school to spread and become entrenched in people\u2019s hearts.<\/h4>\n

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Imam as-Sadiq (peace be upon him) acquainted the public with the original Shi‘a school of thought, which perhaps even some friends and devotees of Ahl al-Bait (peace be upon them) had not recognized properly. By establishing that vast school of knowledge, he familiarized the people with the realities of true Islam, which are fulfilled by following ‘Ali and the Ahl al-Bait (peace be upon them). This was while in the periods before Imam as-Sadiq (peace be upon him) the opportunity for disseminating knowledge was not to the extent that it reached in his time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7453,7758],"tags":[10008,7556],"class_list":["post-4060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bank-of-subjects-of-articles","category-prophet","tag-imam-jafar-as-sadiq","tag-shiastudies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiastudies.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}