Narrator

إسماعيل بن جابر الجعفي

Ismail ibn Jabir al-Jaufi

Ismail ibn Jabir al-Jaufi kept company with al-Bāqir (ʿa), al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and al-Kāẓim (ʿa) and was of Kufa. Rijāl al-Ṭūsī holds him reliable.

When he lived

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

In this collection

70 narrations 59% of them in Al-Kāfi 52 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

Rijāl al-Ṭūsī ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 123

What the books state about him

Ṭabaqa
أصحاب أبي جعفر محمد بن علي بن الحسين عليهم السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
أصحاب أبي عبد الله جعفر بن محمد الصادق عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
أصحاب أبي الحسن موسى بن جعفر الكاظم عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
City or tribe
Kufa — Ikhtiyār Maʿrifat al-Rijāl

Also named

  • إسماعيل الخثعمي
  • إسماعيل بن جابر
  • إسماعيل بن جابر الجعفي
  • إسماعيل بن جابر الجعفي الكوفي
  • إسماعيل بن جابر الخثعمي الكوفي
  • اسماعيل بن جابر
all 12 names →

9 entries across 6 books. Pages follow the editions this database holds.

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Assembled from 9 entries and 12 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.