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Also Known As Jaʿfar aṣ-Ṣādiq
Born 699 or 703 • Medina • Saudi Arabia
Died 765 • Medina • Saudi Arabia
Subjects Of Study Hadith • predestination
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
John Wycliffe
English theologian
Jansen, engraving by Jean Morin
Cornelius Otto Jansen
Flemish theologian
Hincmar of Reims
French theologian
Ratramnus
Benedictine theologian
mausoleum of al-Bukhārī
al-Bukhārī
Muslim scholar
Ames, William
William Ames
English theologian
Gottschalk Of Orbais
Roman Catholic theologian
Franciscus Gomarus
Franciscus Gomarus
Dutch theologian
Claude Pajon
French theologian
Ibn Kathīr
Muslim scholar
Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj
Muslim scholar
Gisbertus Voetius
Dutch theologian
Medina, Saudi Arabia: Prophet's Mosque
Muhammad
prophet of Islam