Narrator
الحسين بن علوان الكلبي
Al-Husayn ibn Alwan al-Kalbi
Al-Husayn ibn Alwan al-Kalbi kept company with al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and was of Kufa (Kalbi client). Rijāl al-Najāshī holds him reliable.
When he lived
The Prophet, then the twelve Imams in order in gold: al-Ṣādiq (ʿa)
From
Kufa (Kalbi client)
Written about in
5 books, 5 entries
In this collection
62
narrations
24% of them in Al-Kāfi
48 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-Najāshī | ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 51 |
|---|---|
| Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth | ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 2691 quoting Ikhtiyār Maʿrifat al-Rijāl، Rijāl al-Najāshī |
What the books state about him
- Ṭabaqa
- أصحاب أبي عبد الله جعفر بن محمد الصادق عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
- City or tribe
- Kufa (Kalbi client) — Rijāl al-Najāshī and also in Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
- Kufa; Banu Kalb (mawla) — Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
Also named
- الحسين بن علوان
- الحسين بن علوان الكلبي
- أبو علي الكوفي
- ابن علوان
- الحسن بن علوان
- الحسين
5 entries across 5 books. Pages follow the editions this database holds.
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Assembled from 5 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.