Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · ascetic
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Summary
Abu Muhammad al-Sa'igh, Ja'far ibn Shakir; he heard 'Affan, Qubaysa, Abu Nu'aym and others; Ibn Sa'id, Ibn Makhlad, Abu'l-Husayn ibn al-Munadi, al-Najad and Abu Bakr al-Shafi'i narrated from him; a worshipping ascetic, reliable, truthful, meticulous and precise — multitudes benefited from him and most of the narrations about him praise his reliability and goodness; he reached ninety years save a few months; he died in Dhu'l-Hijja and was buried in the Bab al-Tawba cemeteries at Baghdad. 1
Sources
- al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , p. 180
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islam.museum contributors. “Ja'far ibn Shakir al-Sa'igh”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/jafar-ibn-shakir-al-saigh/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.