Narrator

إسحاق بن عمار بن حيان

Ishaq ibn 'Ammar ibn Hayyan

Ishaq ibn 'Ammar ibn Hayyan kept company with al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and al-Kāẓim (ʿa) and was of mawla of Banu Taghlib. Rijāl al-Najāshī holds him reliable.

When he lived

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

From mawla of Banu Taghlib Written about in 2 books, 2 entries

In this collection

490 narrations 61% of them in Al-Kāfi 3 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 1

named by a book

  • Abu al-Hasan (al-Kadhim) Rijāl al-Najāshī

Narrated to 1

named by a book

  • Ghiyath ibn Kulub ibn Qays al-Bajali Rijāl al-Najāshī

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.

  • from Abu al-Hasan (Musa al-Kadhim) Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
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Assembled from 2 entries and 2 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.