 صلى الله الرحبان الرحيم الحمد لله يوقف العالمين الحمد لله الذي يجيءني حينه وناديه ويسترع عليه كل عورة وانا أقصيه ويعضم النحمة علي فلا وجازيه نحمده ونسبحه ونقدسه على آله ونعمائه ونشهد الله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له إله واحدا أحدا فردا صمدا قيوما نؤمن له بالربوبية ونقل له بالأبودية من يهدي الله فهو المعتد ومن يظل فلا تجد له وليا مرشدة ونشهد أننا سيدنا محمدا عبده ورسوله الله أرسله بجده ودين الحق ليظهره على الدين كله اللهم صلي وسلم وبارك وترحم على محمد وآله محمد كأبضل ما صليت وسلمت وبارك وترحمت على إبراهيم وآله إبراهيم في العالمين إنك حميد مجيد وصلي الله وسلم على جميع الأنبياء والمرسلين والأوسياء والصديقين واعتبت نبيك الطيبين الطاهرين وأصحابه المنتجبين ونتبعهم بإحسان وإيمان إلى يوم الدين عباد الله وصيكم وأصي نفسي بتقوى الله ورزوم أمر بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم يا أيها الذين أمروا التقوى الله وكونوا مع الصادقين صدق الله العلي العظيم الله ورزوم أمروا التقوى الله في عام شوال هناك مدينة ومهمة مدينة وذلك ستشهد في مرسلنا الإيمان الإيمان جعفر المحمد للصادق عليه الصلاة والسلام الله ورزوم أمروا التقوى الله الإيمان الصادق was given this title and his grandfather the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم when he said according to الإيمان زي وعبدين الله صلى الله عليه وسلم إذا وولد إذا وولد إبن جعفر ابن محمد ابن علي ابن الحسين ابن علي ابن أبي قادر فسدموه الصادق when this son is going to be born and this is 70 years after the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم the prophet died in the year 11 of Hijra and now a son was born in 83 83 Hijra almost 7 decades between the prophet and the the birth of the Imam but of course the prophet through his knowledge that has been divinely inspired to him by Allah سبحانه وتعالى Allah will allow the prophet to know what will happen in the future so he prophesied the birth of the Imam and he gave him this title actually the titles of the Imam all the Imam were giving to them before their birth by Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم الله سبحانه وتعالى الله سبحانه وتعالى some people say that the Shi'a tradition has been attributed to Imam صادق they are named the Jafari tradition versus Maliki and Hanafi and Hamari and Shafari so if there is a gap between 70 years gap between the death of the prophet and the birth of Imam صلى الله عليه وسلم how can we connect with the Shi'a the followers of the Prophet through an Imam who has a gap 70 years gap between him and the prophet very good question the answer is simple the answer is an Imam is not separated from the Prophet physically separated but theologically religiously mentally spiritually he is connected to the Prophet through his four fathers through his father Imam Al-Baqir Imam Al-Baqir through his father Imam صلى الله عليه وسلم and Imam Hassan who is the gate to the city of the knowledge of the knowledge of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم so there is no separation between the Imams and the Prophet the Imam himself the sixth Imam Imam صلى الله عليه وسلم says حديثي حديثو أبي what I am telling you it's what my father has told وحديثو أبي حديثو جدي and what Imam Baqir said to the people is what Imam Zayn al-'Abideen said to them what Imam Zayn al-'Abideen said to them is حديث of his father Imam Hussein حديث of Imam Hussein is the حديث of his father أمير المؤمنين and the حديث of أمير المؤمنين is حديث and the narration of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم and where can you find a chain of narrators such a golden chain of narrators of such a pious reliable trustworthy people like the family of the Prophet the imams of Abdul-Bid where can you find so when we say قال الصادق وقال الباقر as if we are saying قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم they do not invent they are not inventors of حديث everything they say everything they produce everything they give everything they preach is the message of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم this Imam was raised when he was born and he was born during the time of Bani Umayyah 50 years after that the regime of Bani Umayyah collapsed another regime came up the regime of Bani Abbas so the Imam lived almost 50 years of his life during Bani Umayyah and the last 15 or 17 years of his life during the time of Bani Abbas the last 50 years of the regime of Bani Umayyah 10 خليفs or khulafa of Bani Umayyah were ruling during these 50 years of Imam's life and the last 15 years of his life two khulafa of Bani Abbas were ruling the first خليف is أول عباس السفاح and the second one was المنصور الدوانيق or منصور عباسي he is a brother they were two brothers and he was the one who poisoned the Imam and ultimately caused the death and the martyrdom of Imam صالق and the city of you can see the grave of the sixth Imam in the cemetery of Al-Baqeem his mother his father was an Imam Al-Baqel he was raised during his time and also his grandfather Zain Al-Abideen and then his mother was also one of the scholars in the city of Medina her name is قاسم another scholar the son of another scholar by the name of محمد بن أبي بكر محمد بن أبي بكر he is the son of the first caliph أبو بكر أبو بكر مرت أسماء بن تغميس before he married her أسماء was the wife of جعفر بن أبي طالب جعفر بن أبي طالب جعفر بن أبي طالب was martyred in the battle of Muqtah in southern Jordan today the north part of the Arabian Peninsula the city of Muqtah after his death the death of Jafar أبو بكر married his wife أسماء بن تغميس and then in the year 10th of Hijra محمد was born his father is Abu Bakr and his mother is أسماء بن تغميس but then muhammad when he was only 3 or 4 years old his father Abu Bakr died so imam alaih assalam married أسماء بن تغميس while muhammad was little boy so he is the faster son the faster child of Ali ibn Abi Talib but spiritually and mentally and religiously he is the product of Ali ibn Abi Talib so imam alaih raised him he stood with imam alaih loyal to his stepfather imam alaih assalam and he was fighting alongside imam alaih in the battle of Jamal and the battle of Safin that imam alaih appointed him when he arrived in Egypt when he arrived in Egypt عمرب العاس murdered muhammad ibn Abi Bakr of course at the order of muhammad ibn Abi Sufyan muhammad was only 28 years old when he died in Egypt so muhammad had a son called al-qasim who became a scholar on farwa is the daughter of al-qasim from farwa is the mother of imam al-sadaq and i mentioned last night here that imam al-sadaq is the mentor the leader, the teacher the supervisor if you will of two of the great imams of the madahib one of them is Abu-Nu'man Abu-Hanifa and Nu'man ibn Thabit and Nu'man ibn Thabit and al-Qabuli he is born in Kabul, Afghanistan the leader of Hanafi tradition Abu-Hanifa and Nu'man ibn Thabit and al-Zulzi al-Qabuli so the imam was his mentor his teacher and also the mentor and the teacher of Malik ibn Anas Malik ibn Anas is the imam of the maliki madahib who was born in the city of مدينة and during the time of baril abbas he became the sole mufti لا يفتا ومالكن في المدينة baril abbas they issued a decree that no one has the right including the imams of ahlul bayt including imam al-sadaq no one has the right to issue a fatwa while malik imam malik is present imam malik was also the teacher of imam محمد ibn al-sadaq and this is what he says about his teacher imam malik this is what he says اختلفتو ايلا جعفر ibn Muhammad زمانا اختلفتو I studied under him for a period of time وما كنتو أماه إلا على ثلاثي خصان every time I come to visit him or see him I see him in three these three conditions اما مصنل اما صائم اما يقرأ القرآن ايضا he was praying or fasting or reciting the Qur'an وما رأيته يحدث عن وصول الله صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم إلا عن طهار ونبر he gives the hadith ونبر he transmits a hadith on behalf of the Prophet he was on طهار on وضوء he would never say hadith on behalf of the Prophet without وضوء إلا على طهار وكان لا يتكلم فيما لا يعني my teacher always I see him he does not he does not speak about things that are not related to him things that are are fruitless he would not delve into these issues وكان من الأولماء العباد is ذوهاد he was one of the great ascetic ذوهاد means the person who has no attachment to this dunya his focus is not this dunya his focus is the after he is focusing on his after the second chapter of his life the eternal chapter وكان ولقد ولقد حجت سلطن فلما أت الشجرة أحرد when I was with him performing the Hajj when we arrived مسجد الشجرة for the purpose of Ihram the beginning of the journey of Hajj فلما أراد أن يولب كاد يخشى عليه when he was about to say رباك اللهم رباك he was about to pass out out of reverence and fear of Allah سبحانه وتعالى فقلت له لابد لك من ذلك I said to him we cannot pass this station and go into Makkah unless you say تلبي لباك اللهم رباك he answered the Imam answered فقال إني أخشى أن يقال أن يقال لي لا لباك ولا سعتك I feel that if I say لباك اللهم رباك here my Lord I'm coming to you and the Imam says don't come to me I don't want to listen I don't want to hear your voice this is a lesson for us lesson of humility how to speak to Allah سبحانه وتعالى a lesson for us لا لباك ولا سعتك this is the testimony of Imam Malik Ibn Anas on behalf of Imam Ja'far ibn Muhammad عليه الصلاة والسلام so our madhab our school of thought was formalized and crystallized and formulated and took shape by this the great Imam our madhab it connects to the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم but through Imam Ja'far ibn Muhammad Imam Ja'far ibn Muhammad used to speak on behalf of the Prophet every lesson every hadith he says was the hadith of the Prophet and he gathered the scholars who learned under his instructions they gathered 400 axioms أربع ما أتو أصل أصل is like a theory if you will a juristic theory and then after that these theories were gathered in four books these four books are the sources of hadith in the Ahlul Bayt school of thought in the school of Ahlul Bayt of thought the four major sources of hadith are number one كتاب الكافي الشيخ الكوليني number two كتاب من لا يحضوه الفقير number three and four كتاب التهذيب one أستبصار these four books الكافي تهذيب are the books that the hadith of the Prophet أمير المؤمنين امير حسن عبدين محمل الباقر صلى الله عليه وسلم and also the rest of the imams are the hadith in the Shi'a tradition and this is why the Shi'a tradition is called the Jaqfari because the one who crystallized this madhhab and put the final touches on this school of thought was Imam Jaqfar صلى الله عليه وسلم on the 25th of his of the month of Shawwal of his martyrdom we salute our Imam Imam Jaqfar صلى الله عليه وسلم and his family and his grandfather رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم and we play we repay our allegiance to the school of Ahl al-Bait to the school that Allah subhanahu و تعالى purified and refined them and he said and Allah subhanahu و تعالى said إنما يريد الله يذهب عنكم الردسة أهل البيت و يضحركم تضحير و العصر إن الإنسان لفي خسر إلا الذين آمن و عملوا الصريحات وتواصلوا بالحق وتواصلوا بالصبر و صلى الله عليه وسلم على سيدنا محمد