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)

From Kufa Written about in 6 books, 9 entries

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.

Narrates from

No book names anyone he narrates from.

11 men stand next to him in a chain →

Narrated to 4

named by a book

Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Nasr Ikhtiyār Maʿrifat al-Rijāl
Al-Qasim ibn Isma'il al-Qurashi Al-Fihrist
صفوان Al-Fihrist
Safwan ibn Yahya Rijāl al-Najāshī

Narrated from the Imams

Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq Rijāl al-Najāshī · Ikhtiyār Maʿrifat al-Rijāl · Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth · Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl · Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt
Muḥammad al-Bāqir Rijāl al-Najāshī · Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth · 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.

to Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Hajjaj al-Bajali Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

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 A righteous man (Rajul Salih) Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
from Abd Allah ibn Sinan (potential variant in chain) Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
from Abd al-Hamid (servant of Ismail ibn Ja'far) Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
from Abd al-Hamid ibn Abi al-Daylam Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
from Abu Basir Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
from Abu Khalid Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
from Abu Ubayda al-Hadda' Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
from Yunus ibn Dibyan Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
from Yunus ibn Zabyan Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīthside by side in 1 chain
from Muhammad ibn Yahya al-'Attar side by side in 3 chains
from Ali ibn al-Nu'man al-A'lam al-Nakha'i side by side in 2 chains
to Muhammad ibn Abi Umayr Ziyad ibn Isa Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth · Tanqīḥ al-Maqālside by side in 1 chain
to Uthman ibn Isa Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth · Tanqīḥ al-Maqālside by side in 2 chains
to Aban bin Uthman Tanqīḥ al-Maqālside by side in 7 chains
to Aban ibn Abd al-Malik Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Abd Allah ibn Maskan Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Abd Allah ibn Sinan Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīthside by side in 2 chains
to Abd Allah ibn al-Mughira Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Abd Allah ibn al-Walid al-Kindi Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Abd al-Malik al-Qummi Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīthside by side in 2 chains
to Abu Ayyub Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Ali b. al-Hukam Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Ali ibn al-Hasan ibn Rabbat Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Ali ibn al-Nu'man Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Hafs ibn Qart Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Hafs ibn Qut Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Hammad Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Harith Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Hariz Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Hisham ibn Salim Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīthside by side in 3 chains
to Ibn Maskan Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Ibn Sinan Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Jamil bin Darraj Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīthside by side in 2 chains
to Mansur ibn Yunus Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīthside by side in 3 chains
to Musa ibn al-Qasim Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Rafi'ah ibn Musa Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Rifaa ibn Musa Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Sa'dan ibn Muslim Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīthside by side in 1 chain
to Sadwan ibn Muslim Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Ubayd ibn Hafs ibn Qart Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Ubayd ibn Hafs ibn Qut Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Zakariya ibn Amr Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to al-Hasan b. Mahbub Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to al-Hasan ibn Atiyya Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīthside by side in 1 chain
to al-Husayn ibn Uthman Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to al-Husayn ibn al-Mukhtar Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīthside by side in 2 chains
to Muhammad ibn Sinan Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīthside by side in 20 chains
to Abd al-Karim ibn Amr ibn Salih al-Khathami side by side in 3 chains

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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.