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Jaafar Al-Sadiq
جعفر الصادق ar جعفر صادق fa
Muslim scholar and Imam (died 765)
- Child of Muhammad al-Baqir and Umm Farwa bint al-Qasim
- Married to Fatima Al-Hasan, Ḥamīda al-Barbariyya
- Dated 20 April 702 CE – 16 December 765 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 Jaafar Al-Sadiq
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 · 16
Family 16
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.
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child of (child) Muhammad al-Baqir Fifth of the Twelve Shia Imams - child of (mother) Umm Farwa bint al-Qasim Mother of Shia Imam
- parent of (child) Abdullah al-Aftah eldest son of Ja'far al-Sadiq (died 766)
- parent of (child) Al-Abbas ibn Jafar
- parent of (child) Ali al-Uraidhi ibn Ja'far al-Sadiq Muslim scholar
- parent of (child) Asmaa Bint Jafar
- parent of (child) Fatima Bint Jafar
- parent of (child) Isḥâq ibn Ja'far al-Sadiq
- parent of (father) Isma'il ibn Jafar sixth of the Isma'ili Shia Imams
- parent of (child) Muhammad ibn Ja'far al-Sadiq 9th-century self-declared Caliph of the Muslims
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parent of (father) Musa al-Kazim seventh of the Twelve Imams (745–799 CE) - parent of (child) Umm Farwah Bint Jafar
- sibling of Amina bint Muhammed Al-Baqir
- sibling of Sultan Ali son of the fifth imam of Twelver Shii Muslims and fourth imam of Ismaili Shii Muslims, Muhammad al-Baqir
- married to Fatima Al-Hasan
- married to Ḥamīda al-Barbariyya Mother of Musa al-Kazim, the seventh Imam.
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.
Studied under 1
Jaafar Al-Sadiq Muslim scholar and Imam (died 765) Taught 8
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Jabir ibn Hayyan 8th-century Islamic alchemist and author Has references -
Abū Ḥanīfa 8th-century Sunni theologian and jurist -
Malik ibn Anas Arab Islamic jurist, theologian and hadith traditionist (711–795) Has references - Musa al-Kazim seventh of the Twelve Imams (745–799 CE)
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Sufyan al-Thawri Islamic scholar and founder of Thawri Madhhab (716–778)
Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
A founding is an attribution, usually contested, and not a claim that the tradition began fully formed. Patronage is an act, not a belief: it says nothing about the religion of a population, and nothing about the patron’s own practice in every period of a life. Domains are as sources record them — for a saint, usually a patronage — rarely exclusive, and not the same in every account.
Connections
How Jaafar Al-Sadiq 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
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Documented influence 1
What this means
A transmission argued from evidence. Not shared symbols, and not a short path through a database.
Does not imply shared symbols as evidence · a short path through a database
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
26 statements on this record
- 4 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 22 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 2 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.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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