The Imam Jafar's sciences

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سه‌شنبه - ۱۶ بهمن ۲۰۰۶ / 2006 16 November

During the imamate of the sixth Imam greater possibilities and a more favorable 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 Shiite teachings were also a result of the favorable 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. 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 Umayyad and beginning of the Abbasid caliphates. He instructed many scholars in different fields of the intellectual and transmitted sciences, such as Zorarah,Mohammad Ebn Muslim, Mu'min Taq, Hisham ibn Hakam, Aban ebn Taghlib, Hisham ebn Salim, Hurayz, Hisham Kalbi Nassabah, and Jabir ebn Hayyan, the alchemist. Even some important Sunni scholars such as Sufyan Thawri, Abu Hanifah,the founder of the Hanafi school of law, Qadhi Sukuni, Qadhi Abu'l-Bakhtari, and others, had the honor 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 and the other ten Imams combined.