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.

Every narration whose chain this database resolves to him — the figure his seal draws. Resolved name by name, so a namesake of his is not among them.

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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.