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'''Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-Sadiq''' ({{lang-ar|جَعْفَر بْن مُحَمَّد ٱلصَّادِق|translit=Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣādiq}}; {{circa|702}}–765 CE) was a Shia [[Muslim scholar]], [[Faqīh|jurist]], and [[Islamic theology|theologian]], and the [[The Twelve Imams|sixth imam]] of the [[Twelver]] and [[Isma'ili]] branches of [[Shia Islam]].<ref name="EI3-Ja'far">{{harvnb|Buckley|2022a}}.</ref> Known by the title '''al-Sadiq''' ("the truthful"), Ja'far was the founder of the [[Ja'fari school]] of [[Islamic jurisprudence]]. The [[hadith]] recorded from al-Sadiq and his predecessor, [[Muhammad al-Baqir]], are said to be more numerous than all the hadith preserved from the [[Islamic prophet]] [[Muhammad]] and the other Shia imams combined.{{Sfn|Tabatabai|1977|p=204}} Among other theological contributions, he elaborated the doctrine of ''[[Nass (Islam)|{{transl|ar|nass}}]]'' (divinely inspired designation of each Imam by the previous Imam) and ''[[Ismah|{{transl|ar|isma}}]]'' (the infallibility of the Imams), as well as that of [[Taqiyyah|{{transl|ar|taqiya}}]] (religious dissimulation under persecution).{{Sfn|Gleave|2008}}