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.

Jarḥ wa taʿdīl

Al-Fihrist ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 60
Rijāl al-Ṭūsī ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 331

What the books state about him

Ṭabaqa
أصحاب أبي الحسن موسى بن جعفر الكاظم عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
أصحاب أبي الحسن الثاني علي بن موسى الرضا عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
أصحاب أبي جعفر محمد بن علي الثاني عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
City or tribe
Kufa — Rijāl al-Najāshī
Medina — Ikhtiyār Maʿrifat al-Rijāl
Died
221 AH — Rijāl al-Najāshī
220 AH — Ikhtiyār Maʿrifat al-Rijāl

Also named

  • أحمد بن أبي نصر
  • أحمد بن محمد بن أبي نصر
  • أحمد بن محمد بن أبي نصر البزنطي
  • أحمد بن محمد بن أبي نصر زيد
  • أحمد بن محمد بن أبي نصر صاحب الانزال
  • أحمد بن محمد بن عمرو بن أبي نصر
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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.