Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq: Quick Facts

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al-Tirmidhī

Muslim scholar

Ḥasan

grandson of Muḥammad

al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī

Muslim leader and martyr

Fāṭimah

daughter of Muḥammad

al-Aḥsāʾī

Muslim religious leader

al-Ḥillī

Muslim theologian

al-Mukhtār ibn Abī ʿUbayd al-Thaqafī

Muslim leader

John Wycliffe

English theologian

Cornelius Otto Jansen

Flemish theologian

Hincmar of Reims

French theologian

Ratramnus

Benedictine theologian

al-Bukhārī

Muslim scholar

William Ames

English theologian

Gottschalk Of Orbais

Roman Catholic theologian

Franciscus Gomarus

theologian and professor

Claude Pajon

French theologian

Ibn Kathīr

Muslim scholar

Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj

Muslim scholar

Gisbertus Voetius

Dutch theologian

Muhammad

prophet of Islam