Narrator

إسماعيل بن محمد بن إسحاق بن جعفر

Ismail ibn Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Ja'far

Ismail ibn Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Ja'far kept company with al-Riḍā (ʿa). Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt and Rijāl al-Najāshī hold him reliable.

When he lived

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

In this collection

3 narrations 100% of them in Al-Kāfi 12 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 2

named by a book

Narrated to

No book names anyone who takes from him.

6 men stand next to him in a chain →

Narrated from the Imams

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 جده إسحاق بن جعفر Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
  • from عم أبيه علي بن جعفر Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
  • from Muhammad ibn Bakr ibn Janah Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīthside by side in 1 chain
  • from محمد بن سنان Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
  • to أحمد بن الحسين Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
  • to Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalid al-Barqi Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīthside by side in 1 chain
  • to إسحاق بن العباس Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
  • to حفص بن عمر Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
  • to محمد بن عبد الله Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
  • to Muhammad ibn Ali al-Katib Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
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Assembled from 6 entries and 4 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.