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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Life of Imam Muhammad Al-Jawad His And The Narrators Of His Traditions A great mass of scholars and narrators surrounded Imam Abu Ja'far al-Jawad (a.s) taking from the flowing springs of his knowledge and sciences that he had inherited from his grandfather the messenger of Allah (a.s). They wrote down his sayings and fatwas and all the wonderful maxims and arts he stated.

It was by virtue of these scholars and narrators that this precious heritage had been written down and become one of the great treasures of the Islamic intellect and culture. The companions of the infallible imams acted due to their religious beliefs that had bound them to protect the traditions of the imams by writing them down.

The jurisprudents of the Twelver Shia depend on these traditions in deriving the legal rulings and without them the Shia would not have such a great, developed jurisprudence, whose depth and genuineness all the men of intellect and law in the world have acknowledged.

The thing that makes one pride on the companions of the infallible imams is that they tried their bests to keep to the imams to record their traditions at a time that was the most difficult and most critical where the Abbasid governments subjected the imams to severe blockades and prevented people from communicating with them lest the Muslim masses would follow them.

The confinement against the ulama and the narrators was to a degree that no one of them could utter the name of any of the imams whom narrators narrated traditions from. They just hinted at some of the aspects and features of the imams without declaring their names for fear of being killed or imprisoned.

Anyhow, we shall review what we find of biographies of the companions of Imam Abu Ja'far al-Jawad (a.s) because this will complete the study on his life that it will show an important side in his intellectual and scientific life. His 1.

Ibrahim Bin Dawood Al-Ya’qoobi Sheikh at-Toossi considered him as one of Imam al-Jawad’s companions one time and one of Imam al-Hadi’s companions another time.[^1] Al-Barqi mentioned him among the companions of Imam al- Jawad (a.s) and Imam al-Hadi (a.s).[^2] The apparent thing is that he was a Twelver Shia but somehow unknown. 2. Ibrahim Bin Muhammad Al-Hamadani Sheikh at-Toossi mentioned him as one of the companions of Imam ar-Ridha’ (a.s) and Imam al-Jawad (a.s).