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Isma'il ibn Jafar
إسماعيل بن جعفر ar اسماعیل پسر جعفر fa
Sixth of the Isma'ili Shia Imams
- Child of Jaafar Al-Sadiq and Fatima Al-Hasan
- Dated 721 CE – 751 CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Affiliation
As a third party recorded it, often for one period of a life.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Family
The family of Isma'il ibn Jafar
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 13
Family 13
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (mother) Fatima Al-Hasan
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child of (child) Jaafar Al-Sadiq Muslim scholar and Imam (died 765) - parent of (child) Ali ibn Ismail
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parent of (father) Muhammad ibn Ismail Seventh of the Isma'ili Shia Imams (740–813 - sibling of Abdullah al-Aftah eldest son of Ja'far al-Sadiq (died 766)
- sibling of Al-Abbas ibn Jafar
- sibling of Ali al-Uraidhi ibn Ja'far al-Sadiq Muslim scholar
- sibling of Asmaa Bint Jafar
- sibling of Fatima Bint Jafar
- sibling of Isḥâq ibn Ja'far al-Sadiq
- sibling of Muhammad ibn Ja'far al-Sadiq 9th-century self-declared Caliph of the Muslims
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sibling of Musa al-Kazim seventh of the Twelve Imams (745–799 CE) - sibling of Umm Farwah Bint Jafar
Transmission
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
What this means
In the direction the records give it. This is not biological ancestry and it is not institutional succession: a student who inherited no office still received the teaching, and an heir who received the office may have been taught by someone else entirely. It does not imply that teacher and student agreed.
Connections
How Isma'il ibn Jafar connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Succession in office 1
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
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Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
16 statements on this record
- 16 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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Review
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Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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