Day 3

The lesson

1. Al-Shaykh al-Mufid writes that he surpassed his brothers in knowledge, piety and standing; the surviving Companions of the Prophet, the leading Followers and the foremost jurists narrated from him, and more of religion, the Prophet's sunna, the Qur'an and good conduct was learned from him than from any descendant of al-Hasan and al-Husayn before him (al-Irshad).
2. In his time the Shia school of jurisprudence, exegesis and ethics took shape; the movement he began reached its height under his son, Imam al-Sadiq (al-Irshad; Hayat-i Fikri wa Siyasi-yi Imaman-i Shi'a of Rasul Ja'fariyan). His fame for knowledge reached Iraq and Khurasan; one narrator saw people of Khurasan circled around him with their questions (al-Kafi 6:357).
3. Muhammad ibn Muslim narrated thirty thousand hadiths from him (Bihar al-Anwar) and Jabir ibn Yazid al-Ju'fi seventy thousand (A'immatuna of al-Dakhil). Of the six foremost jurists of the early centuries in Shia reckoning, all were companions of al-Baqir and al-Sadiq: Zurara ibn A'yan, Ma'ruf ibn Kharrabudh, Abu Basir al-Asadi, Fudayl ibn Yasar, Muhammad ibn Muslim and Burayd ibn Mu'awiya al-Ijli (Manaqib Ibn Shahrashub).

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