Narrator

أبان بن تغلب بن رباح

Aban ibn Taghlib ibn Ribah

Aban ibn Taghlib ibn Ribah kept company with al-Sajjād (ʿa), al-Bāqir (ʿa) and al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and was of Kufa (Original), Madinah (resided/died there), Tribe: Bakr ibn Wafil (mawla of Banu Jarir) and died in 141 AH. Al-Fihrist, Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt and Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth hold him reliable.

When he lived

The Prophet, then the twelve Imams in order in gold: al-Sajjād (ʿa), al-Bāqir (ʿa), al-Ṣādiq (ʿa)

From Kufa (Original), Madinah (resided/died there), Tribe: Bakr ibn Wafil (mawla of Banu Jarir) Died 141 AH Written about in 7 books, 10 entries

In this collection

131 narrations 46% of them in Al-Kāfi 111 men stand next to him in a chain →

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

Narrates from 9

named by a book

Narrated to 19

named by a book

Narrated from the Imams

  • Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt · Al-Fihrist · Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl · Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth · Rijāl al-Najāshī
  • ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn (al-Sajjād) Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt · Al-Fihrist · Rijāl al-Najāshī · Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
  • Muḥammad al-Bāqir Al-Fihrist · Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl · Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth · Rijāl al-Najāshī
  • أبي جعفر محمّد بن عليّ الباقر Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl

Named with him, but not in the entry we hold

These books tie them to him, but the entries we hold do not name them.

In the same isnād

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Assembled from 10 entries and 23 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.