Imam Ja'far b. Muhammad al-Sadiq (a): Difference between revisions

Because of the weakness of the Umayyads at the time of Imam al-Sadiq (a), the Imam was relatively free to teach and engage in scholarly activities.<ref>Shahīdī, ''Zindigānī-yi Imām Ṣādiq Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad (a)'', p. 47-60.</ref> This religious and scholarly freedom rarely happened during the time of the other Imams, and thus most of our hadiths are from Imam al-Sadiq (a).<ref>Shahīdī, ''Zindigānī-yi Imām Ṣādiq Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad (a)'', p. 61.</ref> According to Ibn Hajar al-Haythami, people learned and transmitted a great deal of knowledge from him, and his fame reached far and wide.<ref>Ibn Ḥajar al-Haythamī, ''al-Ṣawāʿiq al-miḥriqa'', p. 551.</ref> Al-Jahiz also wrote that "his knowledge and jurisprudence have filled the world."<ref>Jāḥiẓ, ''Rasāʾil al-Jāḥiẓ'', p. 106.</ref> Al-Hasan b. 'Ali al-Washsha' reports that he saw nine-hundred people in the mosque of Kufa transmitting hadiths from Imam al-Sadiq (a).<ref>Najāshī, ''Rijāl al-Najāshī'', p. 39.</ref>