Words of the Imams

Ibn Babawayh – also known as al-Shaykh al-Saduq – was a prominent Twelver Shi''i scholar of hadith. Writing within the first century after the vanishing of the twelfth imam, al-Saduq represents a pivotal moment in Twelver hadith literature, as this Shi''i community adjusted to a world without a visible imam and guide, a world wherein the imams could only be accessed through the text of their remem...