Shaykh Saduq (918–991)
Born 918 CE, died 991 CE.
Ibn Babawayh (Arabic: ابْنُ بَابَوَيْه), also known as al-Shaykh al-Saduq (Persian: شیخ صدوق Arabic: ٱلشَّيْخ ٱلصَّدُوق, lit. 'the truthful scholar'), was a prominent ninth-century Twelver Shia scholar, theologian, and hadith compiler of Persian descent. He is regarded as one of the most important scholars in the formative period of Twelver Shia Islam and is particularly known for his extensive work on Shia hadith and theology. His full name was Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Musa ibn Babawayh al-Qomi. He was born in Qom in the early tenth century, into a prominent family of Shia scholars. His father, Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Babawayh al-Qomi, was himself a leading Shia jurist and hadith scholar. Al-Saduq studied under his father and other scholars in Qom before traveling extensively throughout the Islamic world in search of knowledge and hadith traditions. Al-Saduq lived during the Minor Occultation of the twelfth Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi. He is traditionally reported to have received a letter of supplication from the Mahdi through his father.
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