{
 "id": "group/jafari-madhhab",
 "class": "group",
 "slug": "jafari-madhhab",
 "label": {
  "ar": "المذهب الجعفري",
  "en": "The Ja'fari school",
  "ur": "جعفری مذہب"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "المذهب الجعفري مدرسة الفقه الإثني عشرية المنسوبة إلى جعفر الصادق؛ تعرضها كتب الملل ضمن الإمامية ويعرضها البحث الأكاديمي باعتبارها فقه الإثني عشرية {cite:milal-nihal-shahrastani} {cite:momen-1985}.",
  "en": "The Ja'fari school is the Twelver school of fiqh traced to Ja'far al-Sadiq; the heresiographies treat it within the Imamiyya and academic study presents it as Twelver jurisprudence {cite:milal-nihal-shahrastani} {cite:momen-1985}."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "ideas"
 ],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "sects-and-schools",
  "minorities-within-islam"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "madhhab",
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q685467"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/milal-nihal-shahrastani",
   "source/momen-1985"
  ],
  "perspectives": [
   {
    "tradition": "sunni",
    "id": "sunni-classification",
    "stance": {
     "ar": "فقه الإمامية الإثني عشرية كما تصنفه كتب الملل والفقه المقارن",
     "en": "The fiqh of the Twelver Imamiyya as classified by the heresiographies and comparative fiqh"
    },
    "summary": {
     "ar": "تدرج كتب الملل الإمامية وشُعبها — ومنها الواقفة عند جعفر — ضمن فرق الأمة، وتقابل المصنفات السنية مذهبهم الفقهي بالمذاهب الأربعة {cite:milal-nihal-shahrastani}.",
     "en": "The heresiographies list the Imamiyya and its branches — including those who stopped at Ja'far — among the community's sects, and Sunni works compare their legal doctrine with the four madhhabs {cite:milal-nihal-shahrastani}."
    },
    "sources": [
     "source/milal-nihal-shahrastani"
    ]
   },
   {
    "tradition": "academic",
    "id": "academic-description",
    "stance": {
     "en": "The jurisprudential school of Twelver Shi'ism, named for Ja'far al-Sadiq"
    },
    "summary": {
     "en": "Academic works describe the Ja'fari school as the legal tradition of Twelver Shi'ism, named for Ja'far al-Sadiq, with its own usul and ijma' rules {cite:momen-1985}."
    },
    "sources": [
     "source/momen-1985"
    ]
   },
   {
    "tradition": "shia-twelver",
    "id": "twelver-self",
    "stance": {
     "ar": "فقه مدرسة أهل البيت المنسوبة إلى الصادقين الباقر وجعفر",
     "en": "The fiqh of the ahl al-bayt school traced to al-Baqir and Ja'far"
    },
    "summary": {
     "en": "Twelver sources present Ja'fari fiqh as the school of the Imams of the ahl al-bayt, transmitted from al-Baqir and Ja'far al-Sadiq {cite:momen-1985}."
    },
    "sources": [
     "source/momen-1985"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "sensitivity": "contested",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "wikidata-import deferred Q685467; contested: Shahrastani verified + Momen academic fallback",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium)",
   "run": "wd-deferred-10"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 Medium)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "المذهب الجعفري مدرسة الفقه الإثني عشرية المنسوبة إلى جعفر الصادق؛ تعرضها كتب الملل ضمن الإمامية ويعرضها البحث الأكاديمي باعتبارها فقه الإثني عشرية {cite:milal-nihal-shahrastani} {cite:momen-1985}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الآراء",
     "markdown": "- **التصنيف السني:** تدرج كتب الملل الإمامية وشعبها — ومنها الواقفة عند جعفر — ضمن فرق الأمة {cite:milal-nihal-shahrastani}.\n- **البحث الأكاديمي:** مدرسة الفقه الاثني عشرية بأصولها وقواعد إجماعها الخاصة {cite:momen-1985}.\n- **وصف الإثني عشرية:** فقه مدرسة أهل البيت المروي عن الباقر والصادق {cite:momen-1985}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "group/jafari-madhhab",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The Ja'fari school is the Twelver school of fiqh traced to Ja'far al-Sadiq; the heresiographies treat it within the Imamiyya and academic study presents it as Twelver jurisprudence {cite:milal-nihal-shahrastani} {cite:momen-1985}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Perspectives",
     "markdown": "- **Sunni classification:** the heresiographies list the Imamiyya and its branches — including those who stopped at Ja'far — among the community's sects {cite:milal-nihal-shahrastani}.\n- **Academic:** the legal school of Twelver Shi'ism with its own usul and ijma' rules {cite:momen-1985}.\n- **Twelver self-view:** the fiqh of the ahl al-bayt school transmitted from al-Baqir and Ja'far {cite:momen-1985}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "group/jafari-madhhab",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "جعفری مذہب اثنا عشری فقہ کا مکتب ہے جو جعفر صادق سے منسوب ہے؛ کتبِ ملل اسے امامیہ کے اندر زیربحث لاتی ہیں اور علمی مطالعہ اسے اثنا عشری فقہ پیش کرتا ہے {cite:milal-nihal-shahrastani} {cite:momen-1985}۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "نقطہ ہائے نظر",
     "markdown": "- **سنی درجہ بندی:** کتبِ ملل امامیہ اور اس کی شاخوں — جن میں جعفر پر رکنے والے بھی ہیں — امت کے فرقوں میں شمار کرتی ہیں {cite:milal-nihal-shahrastani}۔\n- **علمی نقطہ نظر:** اثنا عشری فقہ کا مکتب جس کے اپنے اصول اور قواعدِ اجماع ہیں {cite:momen-1985}۔\n- **اثنا عشری نقطہ نظر:** اہلِ بیت کے مکتب کی فقہ جو باقر اور جعفر صادق سے مروی ہے {cite:momen-1985}۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "group/jafari-madhhab",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2 Medium), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-22",
 "connections": [],
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  "group/alevism",
  "group/ibadiyya",
  "group/ismaili-dawa",
  "group/kaysaniyya",
  "group/zaydiyya",
  "building/al-kadhimiya-mosque",
  "building/imam-husayn-shrine",
  "concept/ahl-al-ahwa"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}