Imam

علي بن أبي طالب

ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib

The rijāl books do not assess the Imams. They file narrators by which Imam they transmitted from, so this page gathers the chains rather than a verdict.

Died 40 AH

In this collection

703 narrations 21% of them in Al-Khiṣāl

Counted from the narrations and chains this database holds — not a record of everything he transmitted.

Narrates from

No book names anyone he narrates from.

31 men stand next to him in a chain →

Narrated to

No book names anyone who takes from him.

In the same isnād

Each stands next to his name in an isnād — one took straight from the other — and no book calls them teacher or pupil. Each row says where that comes from: a book's chain index, or the chains this database holds.

from al-Asbagh ibn Nubatah al-Mujashi'i side by side in 24 chains
from Zayd ibn Ali side by side in 20 chains
from Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Umar side by side in 11 chains
from Ismail ibn Abi Ziyad al-Sakuni side by side in 9 chains
from Salim ibn Qays al-Hilali side by side in 5 chains
from Ghayath ibn Ibraham al-Tamimi al-Asidi side by side in 5 chains
from al-Harith bin 'Abdillah al-A'war side by side in 5 chains
from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalid al-Barqi side by side in 4 chains
from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Isa al-Ash'ari side by side in 4 chains
from al-Harith side by side in 4 chains
from Thabit ibn Abi Safiyya side by side in 3 chains
from Jabir ibn Yazid side by side in 3 chains
from Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Yahya ibn 'Imran side by side in 3 chains
from Mas'adah ibn Sadaqah al-Abdi side by side in 3 chains
from Muhammad ibn Umar ibn Ali side by side in 3 chains
from Musa ibn Ja'far al-Baghdadi side by side in 3 chains
from Musa ibn Ja'far ibn Muhammad side by side in 3 chains
from Muhammad ibn Yahya al-'Attar side by side in 3 chains
from Ibrahim ibn Hashim side by side in 2 chains
from Sulayman ibn Ja'far ibn Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Abd Allah ibn Ja'far al-Tayyar side by side in 2 chains
from Abdullah ibn Maymun ibn al-Aswad al-Qaddah side by side in 2 chains
from Isa ibn Abd Allah side by side in 2 chains
from Muhammad ibn Khalid ibn Abd al-Rahman side by side in 2 chains
from al-Hasan ibn Mahbub al-Sarrad side by side in 2 chains
from al-Munahhal ibn Amr al-Asadi side by side in 2 chains
from al-Husayn ibn Khalid side by side in 2 chains
from al-Husayn ibn Abi al-Khattab side by side in 2 chains
from Al-Husayn ibn Ali ibn Al-Husayn ibn Ali side by side in 2 chains
from al-Nu'man bin Sa'd side by side in 2 chains
from Yusuf ibn Muhammad ibn Ziyad side by side in 2 chains
from Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiyyah side by side in 2 chains

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This page is not assembled from entries, because the rijāl books write none for the Imams. It gathers the narrations and chains that name him.