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). Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth and Rijāl al-Najāshī hold 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.

Narrates from 2

named by a book

  • Hisham ibn Urwa Rijāl al-Najāshī
  • الأعمش Rijāl al-Najāshī

Narrated to 5

named by a book

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.

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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.