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Ja'far ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq
(The Sixth Imam )
| Honour name(LAQAB) | Mother name | No.of children | Date of Birth | Place of Birth |
| SADIQ | Hazrat Um-e-Farwa Binte Qasim Bin Muhammad | 7 Sons
3 Daughters |
17th Rabi-ul-Awal 83 Hijri | Madina |
| Date of wafat/shahadat | Duration of Life | Place of BURIAL | Name of Massom | |
| 15th Shawal 148 Hijri | 65 years | Jannat-ul Baqee(Madina) | Jafar |
Imam
Ja'far ibn Muhammad Al-Sadiq, the son of the fifth Imam, was born in 83/702.After
the death of his father he became Imam by Divine Command and decree of
those who came before him.
During
the Imamate of the sixth Imam greater possibilities and a more favourable
climate existed for him to propagate religious teachings. This came about
as a result of revolts in Islamic lands, especially the uprising of the
Muswaddah to overthrow the Umayyad caliphate, and the bloody wars which
finally led to the fall and extinction of the Umayyads. The greater opportunities
for Shi'ite teachings were also a result of the favourable ground the fifth
Imam had prepared during the twenty years of his Imamate through the propagation
of the true teachings of Islam and the sciences of the Household of the
Prophet (sawas).
The Imam
took advantage of the occasion to propagate the religious sciences until
the very end of his Imamate, which was contemporary with the end of the
Umayad, and beginning of theAbbasidcaliphates.
He instructed many scholars in different fields of the intellectual and
transmitted sciences, such as Zararah, Muhammad
ibn Muslim, Mu'min Taqi, Hisham ibn Hakam,Aban
ibn Taghlib, Hisham ibn Salim, Hurayz, Hisham Kalbi Nassabah, and Jabir
ibn Hayyan,the alchemist. Even someSunni
scholars such as Sufyan
Thawri, Abu Hanifah, the founder of the Hanafi school of law, Qadi. l Sukuni,
Qadi Abu'l-Bakhtari,and others, had the honour
of being his students. It is said that his classes and sessions of instruction
produced four thousand scholars of hadith and other sciences. The number
of traditions preserved from the fifth and sixth Imams is more than all
the hadith that have been recorded from the Prophet (sawas) and the other
ten Imams combined.
Hisham, the Umayyad caliph, had ordered the sixth Imam to be arrested and brought to Damascus. Later, the Imam was arrested by Saffah., the Abbasid caliph, and brought to Iraq. Finally, Mansur had him arrested again and brought to Samarrah where he had the Imam kept under supervision, was in every way harsh and discourteous to him, and several times thought of killing him.Eventually Imam was allowed to return to madina where he spent rest of his life in hid-ing,until he was poisoned and martyred through the intrigue of Mansur.
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Refferences: SHI'A by Allamah Sayyid Muhammad
Husayn Tabatabai,
Shahid Juma Concept of Massiah in Islam