Narrator

الحسين بن مهران

Al-Husayn ibn Mihran

Al-Husayn ibn Mihran kept company with al-Kāẓim (ʿa) and al-Riḍā (ʿa). Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ weakens him.

on Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ alone, whose ascription is disputed

When he lived

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

Written about in 4 books, 4 entries

In this collection

7 narrations 29% of them in Al-Kāfi 6 men stand next to him in a chain →

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

Tarājim — his notice in each book

Rijāl al-Najāshī

Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-Najāshī (d. 450) p. 54

Entry no. 127

Edition: ed. Mūsā al-Shubayrī al-Zanjānī, Muʾassasat al-Nashr al-Islāmī (Qom); edition number and year not stated in the source

الحسين بن مهران بن محمد بن أبي نصر السكوني روى عن أبي الحسن موسى والرضا عليهما السلام. وكان واقفا. وله مسائل أخبرنا [ ه ] أبو الحسين محمد بن عثمان قال: حدثنا أبو القاسم جعفر بن محمد قال: حدثنا عبيدالله بن أحمد بن نهيك، قال: حدثنا الحسين بن مهران.

Narrates from Abu al-Hasan (Musa al-Kadhim) and al-Rida (Ali ibn Musa), peace be upon them both. He was a Waqifi (one who stopped at the 7th Imam). He has a book of questions (Mas'il).

Listed under al-Kāẓim (ʿa), al-Riḍā (ʿa)

Al-Fihrist

Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (d. 460) p. 109

Entry no. 224

Edition: ed. Jawād al-Qayyūmī, 1st edition, Shaʿbān 1417 AH

الحسين بن مهران

والحسين بن مهران، له كتاب. رواهما حميد، عن عبد الله بن أحمد ابن نهيك، عنهما.

He has a book. Humayd narrated both (this book and the previous one by Ibn Hudhayl) from 'Abdullah ibn Ahmad ibn Nuhayk, from both of them.

Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ

Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Ghaḍāʾirī (5th c.) ḍaʿīf — weak

الحسين بن مهران بن محمد بن أبي نصر

The ascription of this book to Ibn al-Ghaḍāʾirī is disputed; al-Khoei held it unproven («الكتاب المنسوب إلى ابن الغضائري… لم يثبت»).

واقف ضعيف. له كتاب عن موسى.

Wāqifī. Weak. He has a book about (or from) Mūsā.

Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ardabīlī (d. 1101) p. 256
الحسين بن مهران [ضا] بن مهران بن محمد بن أبي نصر السكوني روى عن أبي الحسن موسى والرضا عليهما السلام وكان واقفا [صه.

Also named

  • ابن مهران
  • الحسين بن مهران
  • الحسين بن مهران بن محمد بن أبي نصر
  • الحسين بن مهران بن محمد بن أبي نصر السكوني
  • الحسين بن هذيل
The same names, transliterated
  • Al-Husayn ibn Hazil
  • Al-Husayn ibn Mihan
  • Ibn Mihan
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Assembled from 4 entries and 1 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.