Narrator

أحمد بن محمد بن أبي نصر زيد

Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Nasr Zayd

Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Nasr Zayd kept company with al-Kāẓim (ʿa), al-Riḍā (ʿa) and al-Jawād (ʿa) and was of Kufa and died in 221 AH. Al-Fihrist and Rijāl al-Ṭūsī hold him reliable.

When he lived

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

In this collection

641 narrations 71% of them in Al-Kāfi 253 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.

168 men stand next to him in a chain →

Narrated to 4

named by a book

Narrated from the Imams

  • Muḥammad al-Jawād Rijāl al-Najāshī · Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl · Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
  • ʿAlī al-Riḍā Rijāl al-Najāshī · Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth · Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
  • علي بن الرضا Al-Fihrist
  • أبو إبراهيم عليه السلام Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth · Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
  • Abu al-Hasan (Imam al-Rida or al-Jawad) Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
  • Mūsā al-Kāẓim Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl · Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
  • أبو الحسن الأول عليه السلام Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
  • أبو الحسن الرضا عليه السلام Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
  • أبو الحسن الماضي عليه السلام Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth

In the same isnād

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Assembled from 15 entries and 58 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.