Narrator

علي بن إسماعيل

'Ali ibn Isma'il

'Ali ibn Isma'il kept company with al-Riḍā (ʿa) and was of Kufa / Basra.

مهمل · Muhmal — mentioned, no judgement passed

When he lived

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

In this collection

20 narrations 45% of them in Al-Kāfi 59 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.

34 men stand next to him in a chain →

Narrated to

No book names anyone who takes from him.

25 men stand next to him in a chain →

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 9 entries and 5 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.