Narrator

أحمد بن إسحاق بن عبد الله

Ahmad ibn Ishaq ibn 'Abdillah

Ahmad ibn Ishaq ibn 'Abdillah kept company with al-Jawād (ʿa) and al-ʿAskarī (ʿa) and was of Qum. Rijāl al-Ṭūsī holds him reliable.

When he lived

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

In this collection

60 narrations 77% of them in Al-Kāfi 26 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-Ṭūsī ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 395

What the books state about him

Ṭabaqa
أصحاب أبي جعفر محمد بن علي الثاني عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
أصحاب أبي محمد الحسن بن علي بن محمد بن علي الرضا عليهم السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
City or tribe
Qum — Rijāl al-Najāshī and also in Al-Fihrist

Also named

  • أحمد بن إسحاق أبو علي
  • أحمد بن إسحاق الأبهري
  • أحمد بن إسحاق الأشعري
  • أحمد بن إسحاق القمي
  • أحمد بن إسحاق القمي وكان صالحا وأيوب بن نوح
  • أحمد بن إسحاق بن سعد
all 23 names →

15 entries across 7 books. Pages follow the editions this database holds.

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Assembled from 15 entries and 9 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.