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Birth of Ja’far al-Sadiq, 83 AH
Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣādiq, commonly known as Ja'far al-Ṣādiq, was an 8th-century Muslim scholar. He was the 6th Imam and founder of the Ja'fari school of jurisprudence according to Twelver and Isma'ili Shi'ites. He is also important to Sunnis as a teacher to the Sunni scholars Abu Hanifah and Malik ibn Anas and as a …