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The 6th Imam, Ja’far Ibn Muhammad As-Sadiq (as) was Born in Madinah on 17th Rabiul Awwal 83 Hijiri (23.4.702 AD). Died in Madinah on 15th Shawwal, 148 Hijri (7.12.765 AD) at the age of 63. Period of Imamate 34 years. The 6th Imam, Ja’far Ibn Muhammad As-Sadiq (as) was Born in Madinah on 17th Rabiul Awwal 83 Hijiri (23.4.702 AD). Died in Madinah on 15th Shawwal, 148 Hijri (7.12.765 AD) at the age of 63. Period of Imamate 34 years. It is known from various history books and various sources of Hadith that when Imam As-Sadiq was a young boy, he used to come to the schools and Madrasas founded by his father the 5th Imam and instead of learning as many other youngsters and older pupil did, he used to discuss serious matters of Fiqh and Jurisprudence with much older students of the Madrasas. In one such discourses when he was only 11 years old, when he entered a class room where pupils were discussing on the subject of astronomy, he pointed out to the surprise of everyone except his own father, that the earth cannot be flat, because of the way the sun rises in the East and sets in the west and day and night change in 24 hours, it cannot be possible. In his opinion the earth must be round, otherwise this would not have...

The 4th Imam, Zainul-abideen (asws) and Syeda Fatima (asws), the daughter of Imam Hassan (asws) were blessed with a son, Imam (asws) Mohammed Baqir (asws), on 1st Rajab 57 AH in Madina. The 4th Imam, Zainul-abideenasws and Syeda Fatimaasws, the daughter of Imam Hassanasws were blessed with a son, Imamasws Mohammed Baqirasws, on 1st Rajab 57 AH in Madina. The 5th Imamasws’s both parents were direct descendents of Imam Aliasws and Syeda Fatima Zahiraasws. The 5th Imamasws too suffered from the brutalities of Muslims very early on in his life, the same way as Imamasws‘s ancestors did, the foundation of which was laid down in ‘Saqifa’1 soon after the martyrdom of Prophet Mohammedsaww. Imamasws was only 3 when 72 of hisasws family members were starved for three days and martyred, in front of himasws, on the 10th of Moharram. The 5th Imamasws was taken prisoner together with his terminally ill fatherasws and those women and children who escaped the death after Umayyad army looted and burnt down their tents on the eve of Ashura2. On their way to Kufa and Sham, young Imamasws heard screams of children who fell down from the back of running camels and got trampled; and the helpless cries of their mothers, whose hands were tied behind their backs. Imam Mohammed Baqirasws‘s battered convoy was forced to march bare feet for miles on smouldering sand...