On the occasion of martyrdom anniversary of Imam sadiq (may Allah bless him), Saadabad Complex is closed on Monday, July 9, 2018.
Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn, (b. 83/704 – d. 148/765) known as Imām al-Ṣādiq (a) (الإمام الصادق), is the sixth Imam of Shi'a and the fifth Imam of Isam'ilis. His Imamate was concurrent with the reign of the last five Umayyad caliphs.
Because of the weakness of the Umayyad rule at his time, Imam al-Sadiq (a) was able to have relatively wider scholarly activities.
His companions, students, and those who quoted hadiths from him is said to have amounted to four-thousand people. Most of the hadiths of Ahl al-Bayt (a) recorded in Twelver Shiite hadith collections are from Imam al-Sadiq (a). This is why Twelver Shiism is called Ja'fari School.
Imam al-Sadiq (a) has had a high status in the eyes of prominent Sunni scholars. Abu Hanifa and Malik b. Anas were among the people who quoted hadiths from him. The former considered him the most knowledgeable person among Muslims. In 1378 AH, Shaykh Mahmud Shaltut, the president of al-Azhar, recognized the Ja'fari school as a legitimate Islamic school of jurisprudence.