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The Life of Imam Ja’far Al-Sadiq

Author: Baqir Sharif al-Qarashi
Translator: M. Majid Asadi
Publisher: Ansariyan Publications – Qum
Category:

• Dedication
• Preface
• Notes
• The Shining of the Light
• The Respected Family
• The Father
• The Mother
• Naming
• His Nicknames
• His Surnames
• Physical Descriptions
• His Birth Year
• His House
• His Creativity and Intelligence
• His Familiarity with Languages
• His Participation in Rebuilding the Prophet’s (S) Mosque
• The Disease of His Mother
• His Dignity and Staidness
• Notes
• Under the Shadows of His Grandfather and Father
• Under the Shadow of His Grandfather
• His Prayer for His Son
• Towards Immortality
• Towards the Paradisiacal Abode
• The Imam’s (as) Funeral
• In His Last Destination
• Under the Shadow of His Father
• At the University of His Father
• Love and Praise
• His Advices to Imam al-Sadiq (as)
• Imam al-Sadiq’s (as) Obedience to His Father
• With His Father in Sham
• Closing the Shops in the Face of the Imam (as)
• Towards Immortality
• Nominating Imam al-Sadiq (as) for the Next Imamate
• His Advice to Imam al-Sadiq (as)
• The Last Will
• Towards Paradise
• Funeral of the Imam (as)
• In the Last Abode
• Muslims’ Condolence to Imam al-Sadiq (as)
• Notes
• Psychological Elements
• Imamate
• Necessity of Imamate
• Imams (as); Allah’s (SwT) Representatives
• Imamate; the Prophetic Tree
• Imams (as); the Commissioners of Allah (SwT)
• Obedience to and Recognition of the Imams (as)
• Supremacy of their Positions
• The Knowledge of Imams (as)
• Infallibility
• Generosity and Magnanimity
• Donations in Secret
• Hospitality
• Modesty
• Nobility of Character
• Patience
• His Willingness to Praying
• His Prayers
• Fasting
• Hajj
• More about His Personality
• Imam Baqir
• Zayd ibn Ali
• Yahya ibn Zayd
• Malik ibn Anas
• Abu Hanifah
• Abd al-Rahman ibn Abu Layla
• Amr ibn Thabit
• Al-Mansour al-Dawaneeqi
• Abd al-Karim ibn Abil-Awja
• Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak
• Al-Sayyid al-Himyari
• Al-Awni
• Salih al-Jafari
• Al-Hasan ibn Muhammad
• Al-Arbali
• Muayyid al-Din
• Abu Hatam al-Razi
• Ibn Hayyan
• Al-Jahiz
• Muhammad ibn Talhah
• Ahmad ibn Hajar al-Haythami
• Al-Shahristani
• Ibn al-Sabbagh
• Abu Naim
• Muhammad ibn Hamzah
• Al-Yafii
• Mahmoud al-Khalidi
• Sayyid Mir Ali al-Hindi
• Ahmad Amin
• Peters al-Bustani
• Muhammad Farid Wajdi
• Ahmad Atiyyatullah
• Khayr al-Din
• Said Abbas al-Makki
• Umar Rida Kahhalah
• Mustafa Ghalib
• Arif Tamir
• Mahmoud ibn Wahib
• Al-Shabrawi
• Al-Dhahabi
• Ibn Abu Hatam
• Al-Khazraji
• Ahmad Mahmoud Subhi
• Al-Suwaydi
• Al-Arbali
• Abd al-Aziz Sayyid al-Ahl
• Shaykh Abu Zuhrah
• Muhammad Abd al-Munim
• Muhammad Jawad Fadlullah
• Al-Salami
• Asad Haydar
• Shaykh al-Mufid
• Umar ibn Shahin
• Farouq Umar
• Ahmad ibn Abu Yaqoub
• Adam Hodgeson
• Abu Shaker al-Disani
• Ramadhan Lawand
• Hasan al-Amin
• Abd al-Rahman al-Hanafi
• Muhammad Sadiq
• Mustafa al-Shakah
• Conclusion
• His Enemies
• Ibn Sad
• Abu Bakr ibn Ayyash
• Yahya ibn Said
• Al-Bukhari
• Imran ibn Hattan
• Aboul-Ahmar
• Jarir ibn Uthman
• Ishaq ibn Suwayd
• Abdullah ibn Salim
• Notes
• His Scientific University
• His Encouragements for Learning
• Urging on Documenting the Science
• His Advice to Protect Books
• Correcting the Books of His Students
• The Founders of the University of the Ahl al-Bayt (as)
• In the Era of Imam al-Sadiq (as)
• The Factors of Growth and Prosperity
• The General Center
• Scientific Scholarship
• The Number of the Students
• The Branches
• His Professional Students
• Documenting Sciences
• Books Attributed to Al-Sadiq (as)
• Al-Jafariyyat
• A Book with His handwriting
• Pride and Glory
• Its Distinctive Feature
• The Dread of the Government
• Educational Systems
• Imam (as) with His Students
• Husham ibn al-Hakam
• The Syrian Man with the Imam’s (as) Students
• Imam (as) with Some of His Students
• Notes
• His Reasoning and Debates
• Nullification the Doubts of Atheists
• Al-Jud ibn Dirham
• Abd al-Malik al-Misri
• Some of the Atheists
• Abu Shakir al-Disani
• Abd al-Karim
• The Infidel
• With Fatalists
• His Debates
• With Abu Hanifah
• With Ibn Abi-Layla
• With the Mutazilah
• With Christians
• Notes
• His Letters and Advices
• Letters
• A Letter to al-Najjashi
• The Answer of the Imam (as)
• The Letter of the Imam (as) to al-Najjashi
• His Letter to Some of His Followers
• His Letter About Spoils of War and the Fifth
• His Letter Regarding Monotheism
• His Letter to a Group of His Companions
• His Letter to Some of His Followers
• His Letter to Abdullah
• His Letter to His Companions
• His Letter to Some of His Companions
• His Letter to Some of the People
• His Letter to People of the World
• His Advices
• His advice to Abdullah ibn Jundab
• Bequest for Mumin al-Taq
• His Bequest For His Son al-Kadhem (as)
• His Advices to Sufyan
• His Advices to His Followers
• His Advice to Jabir ibn Hayyan
• His Advice to Mufaddhal ibn Zayd
• His First Advice to Mualla ibn Khunays
• His Second Advice to Mualla
• His Advice to Umar ibn Said
• His Advice to Hasan ibn Rashid
• His Advice to Anbasa al-Abed
• His Advice to Hamad
• His Advice to Samaa
• His Advice to Bastam
• His Advice to Muhammad and Ishaq
• His Advice to Muawiyah ibn Ammar
• His Advice to Ammar ibn Marwan
• His Advice to Abd al-Rahman
• His Advice to Abu Basir
• His Advice to Hamran ibn Ayun
• His Advice to Mufaddhal ibn Umar
• His Advice to Some of His Companions
• His Advice to Onwan al-Basri
• His Advice to Some of His Companions
• His Advice to Some of His Companions
• His Advice to Hafs ibn Ghiath
• His Advice to Mufaddhal ibn Umar
• His Advice to Some of His Companions
• His Advice to His Companions
• His Advice to Hafs ibn Ghyath
• His Advice to His Companions
• His Advice to Ammar ibn Mosa
• His Advice to His Followers
• His Advice to His Followers
• His Advice for the General Public
• His Advice to His Companions
• His Advice to Homran ibn Ayun
• His Advice to Mansour al-Dawaneeqi
• Notes
• Knowledge
• Chemistry
• Medicine
• The Imam (as) with the Indian Physician
• The Number of Bones in the Human Body
• Blood Circulation
• Warning Against Gastric Diseases
• Health Advices
• Nourishment
• Rice Bread
• Meat
• Scholastic Theology
• Conscience-Based Reasoning
• Intellectual Reasoning
• The Monotheism of al-Mufaddhal
• Examples from the Monotheism of al-Mufaddhal
• The origin of doubting about Allah (SwT)
• Manichaeanism
• Atheists
• Sense-Based Reasons for the Existence of Allah
• The Precise System of the Universe
• The Creation of Human Being
• The Science of Jurisprudence and the Reason of Instructions
• His Flexibility
• Opening the Horizon of Inference
• The Levels of Ijtihaad
• The Comprehensiveness of the Tasks for All
• The Reason of Instructions
• Ablution Before and After Meals
• Prohibiting Wine, Eating Dead Animal and Blood
• Fulfilling Fasts after Menstruation
• Glorifying Mosques
• Fulfilling Two Prayers Together
• Group Prayer
• Walking Towards Prayer
• Leaving Prayers and Infidelity
• Prostration on the Ground
• Exclaiming “Allah is great” Three times After the Prayer
• Night Prayer
• Almsgiving
• Almsgiving for the Poor
• Illegality of Paying Alms to Some People
• Fasting
• The Necessity of Hajj
• The Necessity of Hajj Umra
• Talbia
• Trotting and Endeavour Between al-Safa and al-Marwa
• Not Looking in Mirror
• The Hatred of Using Kohl for Women in Hajj
• Making Hajj Compulsory for People
• The Naming of Some Parts of Hajj
• Forbidding Usury
• Exceptions in Selling to Return Debt
• Notes
• In Holy Quran’s Atmosphere
• Pondering on the Verses of Quran
• The Miracle and Strange in Quran
• Quran, Ordering and Denying
• The Rewards of Those Memorizing and Reading Quran
• The Reward of Listening to Quran
• Houses in which Quran is read
• What should be read during Each Day?
• Having Quran in House
• The Duration That Quran’s Reading Should be completed
• Reading Correctly
• Quran Descended in Four Sections
• Writing Quran with Gold
• Examples of His Interpretation
• Important Notes About Establishing the House
• Notes
• A Glance at the Holy Prophet’s (S) Traditions
• The Traditions from the Leader of the Believers, Imam Ali (as)
• His Narrations from Imam Hasan (as)
• His Narrations from His Father
• His Narrations from Abu Dharr (ar)
• His Narrations from Salman al-Farsi (ar)
• From the Prophets’ (as) Judgments
• Mind and Knowledge
• Knowledge
• The Importance of Mind
• Mind and Religion
• Mind is the Fence of Human Being
• The Success of Human with his Mind
• Reward in Accordance with Mindfulness
• Mind and Morals
• Mind and Its Soldier
• Doubtfulness as a Disease of the Mind
• Mind For Obeying Allah (SwT)
• Mind as the Proof of Allah (SwT) for His Creatures
• Encouraging People to Seek Knowledge
• Compulsory Studying
• Superiority of Scientists
• The Reward of the Learner
• Learn More and More
• The Behaviour of Learner
• Sincerity in Seeking Knowledge
• Blaming the Pride in Knowledge
• Different Categories of Learners
• Superiority in Religious Studies
• When Someone Is Considered as Religious Expert
• Knowledge Accompanying Deeds
• Knowledge Without Deeds
• Speech Without Knowledge
• Asking from Scholars
• Evil Scholars
• Scholars in Hell
• The Death of Proper Scholars
• Useful Knowledge
• The Zakat of Knowledge
• The Imperfect Person
• Proper Attributes
• Virtue
• Patience
• Endurance
• Modesty
• Contentedness
• Being Satisfied With Allah’s (SwT) Decision
• Humility
• Proper Behaviour
• Generosity
• Beneficence
• Kindness
• Mercy
• Determinism
• Proper Attributes
• Elevated Properties
• Three Proper Attributes
• Three Honourable Attributes
• Beauty
• Yielding on Truth
• Honest Talk
• Relying on Allah (SwT)
• Strength in Affairs
• The Attributes of the Prophets (as)
• Proper Attributes
• Prominent Attributes
• The Attributes of the Believers
• Ten Properties of Goodness
• Ten Properties of Wisdom
• Hateful or Bad Attributes
• Spite
• Envy
• Self-complacence
• Arrogance
• Greediness
• Stinginess
• Cupidity
• Pride
• Anger
• Duplicity
• Lack of Mind
• Backbiting
• Deviltry
• Gloating
• Hypocrisy and Dispute
• Throwing Sin on an Innocent Person
• Aggression
• Oppression
• Duplicity
• Betrayal
• Cheating and Deceiving
• Extremism
• Pessimism
• Over-joking
• Being Bored and Worried
• Lowness
• Laziness
• Lie
• Adultery
• Disloyalty to Parents
• Denying Mercy
• Three Whom Allah (SwT) is Furious About
• Three Whom Allah (SwT) Hates
• Three Who Have No Faith
• Hasting In Deeds
• Great Sins
• Disclosing Secrets
• Loving the Worldly Life
• Friendship and Faith
• The Importance of Friendship
• The Necessity of Friendship
• The Position of Friendship
• Rights of Friends
• Financial Comfort
• Avoiding Expenses
• Not Following the False Steps of the Friend
• The Boundary of Friendship
• People Who Shall Not Be Friends
• Caring About Friend After His Death
• Visiting Relatives
• Faith and Believers
• Faith
• Islam and Faith
• Faith with Levels
• The Superiority of Those Ahead in Faith
• Faith and Organs of Human
• Believers
• The Attributes of A Believer
• The Right of A Believer
• A Believer is Brother of A Believer
• Working Hard to Fulfil Believers’ Need
• Overcoming Believer’s Needs
• Bringing Happiness to Believers’ Hearts
• Overcoming Believers’ Trouble
• The Clothes of Believer
• Honouring Believers
• Feeding the Believers
• Relieving a Believer
• Hurrying in Accepting a Believer’s Request
• Giving the Believer What He Needs
• Visiting and Asking about a Believer
• Advising the Believers
• Scorning a believer is Forbidden
• Frightening a Believer is Forbidden
• Assisting Someone Against a Believer is Banned
• Letting a Believer Down is Forbidden
• Accusing a Believer is Inhibited
• Rebuking a Believer is Banned
• Rejoicing At Misfortune of Believer is Banned
• Damaging a Believer is Prohibited
• Hurting the Believers is the Aim of Satan
• Notes
• Imam al-Sadiq’s (as) Opinions in Politics and Economics
• Jurisprudents and Kings
• Penance of Working with Kings
• What People Are In Need of?
• The Kindness of Rulers and Their Justice
• Just Rulers
• Silence in the Kingdom of the Cruel
• Denying the Just Imam
• Cruel Ruler
• Being away From the Rulers
• The Attributes of Imam
• Keep Distance from Kings
• The Best Rulers
• Some Responsibilities of Ruler
• The Responsibilities of Government on Citizens
• Merciful Ruler
• Words in Economics
• Urging to Farm
• Urging to Work
• His Stress on Doing Business
• His Denial against Squander
• Restoration of Wealth
• Avoiding Laziness
• Denying Oversleep and Extra Leisure Time
• Imam al-Sadiq’s (as) Advices and Models of His Wisdoms
• His Advices
• Love Because of Allah (SwT)
• The Kind Act
• His Tripartite Traditions
• His Quadruplet Traditions
• His Quintuple Traditions
• His Sextet Traditions
• His Heptagon Traditions
• His Octoploid Traditions
• His Ten-Part Traditions
• The Imam’s (as) Short Phrases
• The Era of Imam al-Sadiq (as)
• The Umayyad Rulers
• The Government of the Imam (as)
• The Government of Muawiyah
• The Government of Yazid
• The Murder of Slaying Imam Husayn (as)
• The Event of al-Harrah
• Muawiyah ibn Yazid
• The Government of Marwan
• Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan
• Appointing Hajjaj as the Governor
• His Stand with Religion
• The Problems of the Shiah
• The Problem of Kufah
• His Prisons
• His Death
• Comments about al-Hajjaj
• Al-Hasan al-Basri
• Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz
• Asim
• Al-Qasim
• Zadhan
• Tawous
• Returning to the Topic of al-Hajjaj
• His Rulers and Attendants
• Khalid al-Qasri
• Ibn Shafi
• Yousif ibn Umar
• The Imam (as) in Damascus
• The Death of Abd al-Malik
• The Government of al-Walid
• Imam (as) with al-Walid
• The Death of al-Walid
• The Government of Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik
• The Government of Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz
• Avoiding the Curse against Imam Ali (as)
• His Relation with the Alawis
• The Return of Fadak to the Alawis
• With Imam Baqir (as)
• Points to Criticise
• His Death
• The Government of Yazid ibn Abd al-Malik
• Husham ibn Abd al-Malik
• Stinginess
• Spite
• Hardhearted
• Malicious Logic
• With His Son Said
• With Imam Baqir (as)
• The Lecture of the Imam (as) in Damascus
• Arresting the Imam (as)
• Closing the Shops in the Way of the Imam (as)
• The Revolution of Zayd
• The Betrayal of the Koufis
• Passing Away
• The Burning of the Pure Corpse
• Imam al-Sadiq (as) and Zayd
• The Death of Husham
• The Government of al-Walid ibn Yazid
• The Government of Yazid ibn al-Walid
• The Government of Ibrahim ibn al-Walid
• The Government of Marwan ibn Muhammad
• Alawi Preachers
• Al-Abwa Conference
• Choosing Abi Muslim
• The Advices of Ibrahim to Abi Muslim
• In Khurasan
• Nasr ibn Sayyar
• The Stand of Imam al-Sadiq (as)
• The Imam (as) with the Alawis
• With Abi Salmah
• Abi Muslim Regretted
• The End of the Umayyad Dynasty
• The Umayyad Escaped
• Genocide
• The Stance of Imam al-Sadiq (as)
• The General Policy of the Umayyad
• Enmity over Ahl al-Bayt (as)
• Scoring the Nation
• Scorning the Value and Principles
• Tribal Prejudice
• The Financial Policy
• In the Era of al-Saffah and al-Mansour
• The Government of al-Saffah
• The Managerial System
• Al-Saffah and the Alawids
• The Stand of Imam al-Sadiq (as) with al-Saffah
• Moving to al-Hirah
• The Welcoming of the Scholars
• His Visit to the Shrine of Imam Ali (as)
• His Motivation for Visiting the Shrine of Imam Ali (as)
• His Visits to the Shrine of al-Husayn (as)
• The Merits of Visiting al-Husayn (as)
• The Prayer of the Imam (as) for the Visitors of al-Husayn (as)
• The Death of al-Saffah
• The Government of al-Mansour
• His Psychological Elements
• Stinginess
• His Niggardliness
• His Stinginess on al-Mahdi
• With the Singer of His Camel
• With Ibn al-Samaan
• With al-Wadheen ibn Atta
• With the Poets
• Economical Slump
• The Reason of His Stinginess
• His Dictatorship
• His Betrayal and Disloyalty
• Abu Muslim
• Abdullah ibn Ali
• Muhammad ibn Abi-Abbas
• Frightening the Citizens
• Torturing the Alawis
• Spying on the Alawis
• Arresting the Alawis
• Transferring Them to Iraq
• The Disaster of Imam al-Sadiq (as)
• The letter of the Imam (as) to Abdullah
• In al-Rabadhah
• In al-Hashimiyyah
• The Confiscation of the Alawis’ Wealth
• The Revolution of al-Zaki Muhammad
• The Revolution of Ibrahim
• Putting the Alawis in the Cylinder
• The Treasury of the Head of the Alawis
• Alawis Asking for Mercy
• Scolding Imam Ali (as)
• The Stance of al-Sadiq (as) towards al-Mansour
• The Stand of al-Mansour in Dealing with Imam al-Sadiq (as)
• Cruel Actions
• Burning the House of the Imam (as)
• Keeping Him Away from the People
• Arresting the Imam (as)
• His Intention to Kill the Imam (as)
• Giving up the Request of al-Mansour
• The Release of the Imam (as) from His Malice
• Al-Mansour with the Imam (as) in al-Rabathah
• Sending after Him to al-Kufah
• Sending after Him to Baghdad
• Imam al-Sadiq (as) and the Close Departure
• The Imam (as) Announcing His Death
• His Assassination
• His Will
• Towards Paradise
• Preparing for Funeral
• Praising the Imam (as) after His Death
• Lighting up a Lamp in the House of the Imam (as)
• The Date of Departure
• His Blessed Age
• Notes