Jabir ibn Yazid al-Ju'fi

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Jabir ibn Yazid al-Ju'fi (Arabic: [جابر بن یزید الجُعفی) known sometimes as Thiqa (trustworthy), is recognized as the bab (gate) of the fifth Shia Imam al-Baqir, who related 70 (or 70000) secret Hadiths to him. Jabir claimed that he had seen some miracles from Baqir; still Shia do not reject him as a Ghali. Jabir is also the main narrator of some other Hadiths which is collected in another book, named Risalat al-Ju'fi which is said, consists of Jabir's view on Ismaili belief.^[1][2][3]

Jabir is also transmitter of some Hadiths in the book Umm al-Kitab, which is Baqir's answers to the questions of his followers.^[4] In the main part of this book, al-Baqir reveales secrets to al-Ju'fi, such as how cosmos been created, how human soul fell into this world and how it could get deliverance from it.^[5] According to Corbin, this book is resembling the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, it illustrates the similarity between imamology and gnostic Christology. A major concept of this work is the description of the numinous experience. Its central motif is the psychological and philosophical explanation of spiritual symbols, with believers instructed to perform acts of self-purification and renewal. Colors are used to symbolize theories and levels of consciousness which one must recognize in oneself.^[6]

See also[]

• Umm al-Kitab (Ismaili book)
• Muhammad al-Baqir
• Jabir ibn Yazid al-Ju'fi

References[]

Works cited[]

• Lalani, Arzina R. (2000). Early Shi'i Thought: The Teachings of Imam Muhammad Al-Baqir. I. B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1860644344.
• Kohlberg, Etan (1993). Pellat, Heinrichs; C٫ Edmund Bosworth; E٫J٫ van Donzel (eds.). MUHAMMAD B. ALI ZAYN AL- ABIDIN. New York: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Volume VII.

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