Exploration of Ibn Sekkit’s Scientific and Educational Status

Ibn Sekkit, a companion to Imam Jawad and Imam Hadi, is considered one of the scientific and practical role models of the third century AH. After acquiring knowledge, Ibn Sekkit began to teach and serve as an educator in the Abbasid caliphate court for a while. The important and authentic historical sources have considered him an authority in some fields of knowledge, praising his social and scientific morality and conduct. He was also a reliable source in transmitting hadiths and traditional accounts. Investigating the existing sources and commentaries in historical and geographical books, biographies, literary sources, and accounts of personages and related encyclopedias reinforces the idea that Ibn Sekkit, apart from the prevalent knowledge in his own era, enjoyed other knowledge as well; and this reveals the necessity of studying about him. The present study seeks to explain firstly how Ibn Sekkit’s scientific status was, and secondly, how his relationship to the various sciences in his age was. The research method is descriptive-explanatory and deals with Ibn Sekkit’s scientific status.