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)

From Qum Written about in 7 books, 15 entries

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.

Narrates from 1

named by a book

  • Abū al-Ḥasan the Third Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ

Narrated to 2

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 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.