جعفر الصادق
Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq
Person
A great scholar of Medina (d. 765), a descendant of the Prophet and a teacher admired by Muslims of every school.
What it means
Jafar ibn Muhammad al-Sadiq, “the truthful”, a great-grandson of Husayn, taught in Medina under the Umayyad and early Abbasid dynasties. Students of fiqh and hadith came to him, among them, according to some accounts, Abu Hanifa and Malik. He was known for his piety, his learning in hadith and Quranic interpretation, and his generosity.