Shaykh al-Saduq, whose full name was Abu Jafar Muhammad ibn Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Babawayh al-Qummi and who is also called Ibn Babawayh, was a leading Twelver Shia traditionist and jurist. He was born in Qom after 305 AH, probably about 311 AH (923 CE), and died in Ray in 381 AH (991 CE). Encyclopaedia Iranica calls him the most eminent traditionist and jurist of the school of Qom. He travelled widely in Persia, Iraq and Transoxiana, and some 300 works are listed under his name. He is the author of Man la yahduruhu al-faqih, composed in Balkh, one of the four authoritative books of Imami Shia hadith, which is why he appears here as the compiler of that collection.
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Ibn Bābawayh, also spelled Ibn Babūyā, in full Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Ḥusayn ibn Mūsā al-Qummī, also called aṣ-Ṣadūq (born c. 923, Khorāsān province, Iran—died 991, Rayy), Islamic theologian
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He was born and raised in Qom, a town about 125 kilometres (78 mi) south west of Tehran in modern-day Iran.
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Born into a learned Imami family, he boasted that he had been begotten in answer to the prayer of the Hidden Imam; his father, Abu’l Ḥasan ʿAlī, had received a letter from him to this effect through the safīr (envoy) Ḥosayn b.
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Ray, 381/991), author of one of the authoritative four books of Imami Shiʿite Hadith, Man lā yaḥżoroho’l-faqīh .
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Ibn Bābawayh, also spelled Ibn Babūyā, in full Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Ḥusayn ibn Mūsā al-Qummī, also called aṣ-Ṣadūq (born c. 923, Khorāsān province, Iran-died 991, Rayy), Islamic theologian
3. Al-Shia.org: The Biography and Contributions of Shaykh al-Saduq
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Today, his tomb is one of the famous shrines that are frequently visited by people who seek blessings there.
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