Taking advantage of the political vacuum between the fall of the Umayyads and the rise of the Abbasids, he built the broadest school of jurisprudence and hadith transmission in Shia history, training thousands of narrators - the Ja'fari school of law is named after him.
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Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq
Al-Sadiq (the truthful)
- Birth
- 17 Rabi al-Awwal, 83 AH (Medina)
- Martyrdom / Passing
- 25 Shawwal, 148 AH (Medina; by poisoning, per Shia narration)
- Relation to Ahl al-Bayt
- Son of Imam Muhammad al-Baqir; the sixth Imam
Teachings
- Systematic, wide-scale codification of Shia jurisprudence and hadith.
Related occasions
Shahadat of Imam al-Sadiq