Narrator

أحمد بن محمد بن سيار

Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Sayyar

Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Sayyar kept company with al-Hādī (ʿa) and al-ʿAskarī (ʿa) and was of Basri (Basilan). Al-Fihrist, Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt and Rijāl al-Najāshī weaken him.

When he lived

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

In this collection

61 narrations 66% of them in Al-Kāfi 28 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

Rijāl al-Najāshī ضعيف ḍaʿīf — weak p. 78
Al-Fihrist ضعيف ḍaʿīf — weak p. 65
Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt ضعيف جدا very weak p. 66

What the books state about him

Ṭabaqa
أصحاب أبي الحسن الثالث علي بن محمد عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
أصحاب أبي محمد الحسن بن علي بن محمد بن علي الرضا عليهم السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
City or tribe
Basri (Basilan) — Rijāl al-Najāshī
Basra — Al-Fihrist
Qum — Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ
Isfahan / Basra — Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

Also named

  • أبو عبد الله السياري
  • أحمد بن محمد البصري
  • أحمد بن محمد البصري يرمى بالغلو
  • أحمد بن محمد السياري
  • أحمد بن محمد السياري البصري
  • أحمد بن محمد بن السياري
all 18 names →

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