The lesson
- He rejected analogy (qiyas) as a source of law (Wasa'il al-Shi'a), and said the Khawarij erred out of ignorance, for religion is gentler than they understood it (Ja'fariyan). Ibn al-Nadim mentions a book of Qur'an exegesis from him (al-Fihrist).
- When a man repeated Ka'b al-Ahbar's claim that the Ka'ba prostrates each morning toward Jerusalem, he said: you and Ka'b are both wrong, and God has not created a place on earth more beloved to Him than the Ka'ba, as Zurara ibn A'yan narrates (Bihar al-Anwar 46:354).
- It is reported that the caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan first minted coins with Islamic inscriptions on his suggestion, replacing Byzantine coin (A'yan al-Shi'a); some attribute the suggestion to Imam al-Sajjad, or say al-Baqir made it on his father's instruction (al-Iqd al-Munir).
Questions
What did Imam Muhammad al-Baqir say about the claim that the Ka'ba prostrates each morning toward Jerusalem?
According to one report, what did the caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan do on the suggestion of Imam al-Baqir?
What did Imam al-Baqir reject as a source of law?
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