Narrator

أحمد بن الحسن بن إسماعيل

Ahmad ibn al-Hasan ibn Ismail

Ahmad ibn al-Hasan ibn Ismail kept company with al-Kāẓim (ʿa) and was of mawla of Banu Asad. Al-Fihrist and Rijāl al-Najāshī hold him reliable.

When he lived

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

In this collection

51 narrations 69% of them in Al-Kāfi 54 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

  • Abi Turab Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

Narrated to 4

named by a book

Narrated from the Imams

Named with him, but not in the entry we hold

These books tie them to him, but the entries we hold do not name them.

In the same isnād

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Assembled from 11 entries and 14 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.