Despite all his enmity towards “Ahl al-Bayt” [AS], “Ibn Taymiyyah” has been influenced by the greatness, virtues and grandeur of Imam “Sadiq” [AS] so much that he says:
“فإن جعفر بن محمد لم يجيء بعد مثله و قد أخذ العلم عنه هؤلاء الأئمة”
So far, no one like Imam “Ja’far ibn Muhammad” [AS] has come to this world and some of Sunni Imams [AS] have been his disciples.
Minhaj al-Sunnah, vol. 4, p 126