Narrator

إسماعيل بن علي

Ismail ibn Ali

Ismail ibn Ali kept company with al-ʿAskarī (ʿa) and was of Baghdad. Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth holds him reliable.

on an early rijālī, reached through a later compiler

When he lived

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

In this collection

9 narrations 44% of them in Kitāb al-Ghayba 3 men stand next to him in a chain →

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

Jarḥ wa taʿdīl

Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 1321 quoting Rijāl al-Najāshī

What the books state about him

City or tribe
Baghdad — Al-Fihrist

Also named

  • إسماعيل بن علي
  • إسماعيل بن علي بن إسحاق بن أبي سهل بن نوبخت
  • إسماعيل بن علي بن إسحاق بن أبي سهل بن نوبخت أبو سهل
  • اسماعيل بن علي بن اسحاق بن ابي سهل بن نوبخت
  • أبو إسحاق إسماعيل بن إسحاق بن أبي سهل بن نوبخت
  • أبو سهل
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Assembled from 4 entries and 2 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.