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This article critically examines the historical value of reports attributed to Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad al-Ṣādiq, the sixth Imām of the Shiʿa, aiming to differentiate the historical figure from myth and polemical narratives. It proposes a taxonomy for categorizing these reports based on their transmission and provenance, while assessing existing methodologies for their study. The paper serves as a foundational methodological framework for future research into the extensive corpus of Jaʿfar
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- bejder44
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