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Wafat Imam Ja'far ibn Muhammad Al-Sadek 
 
Honour name(LAQAB) Mother name No.of children Date of Birth Place of  Birth
SADEK Hazrat Um-e-Farwa Binte Qasim Bin Muhammad 7 Sons
3 Daughters		 17th Rabi-ul-Awal 83 Hijri Madina
Date of wafat/shahadat Duration of   Life Place of BURIAL Name of Massom  
15th Shawal 148 Hijri 65 years Jannat-ul Baqee(Madina) Jafar  
  
 
 

Imam Ja'far ibn Muhammad Al-Sadek, the son of the fifth Imam, was born in 83/702.After the death of his father he became Imam by Divine Command and decree of those who came before him.


During the Imamate of the sixth Imam greater possibilities and a more favourable climate existed for him to propagate religious teachings. This came about as a result of revolts in Islamic lands, especially the uprising of the Muswaddah to overthrow the Umayyad caliphate, and the bloody wars which finally led to the fall and extinction of the Umayyads. The greater opportunities for Shi'ite teachings were also a result of the favourable ground the fifth Imam had prepared during the twenty years of his Imamate through the propagation of the true teachings of Islam and the sciences of the Household of the Prophet (sawas).

The Imam took advantage of the occasion to propagate the religious sciences until the very end of his Imamate, which was contemporary with the end of the Umayad, and beginning of theAbbasidcaliphates. He instructed many scholars in different fields of the intellectual and transmitted sciences, such as Zararah, Muhammad ibn Muslim, Mu'min Taqi, Hisham ibn Hakam,Aban ibn Taghlib, Hisham ibn Salim, Hurayz, Hisham Kalbi Nassabah, and Jabir ibn Hayyan,the alchemist. Even someSunni scholars such as Sufyan Thawri, Abu Hanifah, the founder of the Hanafi school of law, Qadi. l Sukuni, Qadi Abu'l-Bakhtari,and others, had the honour of being his students. It is said that his classes and sessions of instruction produced four thousand scholars of hadith and other sciences. The number of traditions preserved from the fifth and sixth Imams is more than all the hadith that have been recorded from the Prophet (sawas) and the other ten Imams combined.
 

Hisham, the Umayyad caliph, had ordered the sixth Imam to be arrested and brought to Damascus. Later, the Imam was arrested by Saffah., the Abbasid caliph, and brought to Iraq. Finally, Mansur had him arrested again and brought to Samarrah where he had the Imam kept under supervision, was in every way harsh and discourteous to him, and several times thought of killing him.Eventually Imam was allowed to return to madina where he spent rest of his life in hid-ing,until he was poisoned and martyred through the intrigue of Mansur.