Narrator

أحمد بن محمد بن عيسى الأشعري

Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Isa al-Ash'ari

Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Isa al-Ash'ari kept company with al-Riḍā (ʿa), al-Jawād (ʿa) and al-Hādī (ʿa) and was of Qom (Shaykh al-Qummiyin). Rijāl al-Ṭūsī holds him reliable.

When he lived

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

From Qom (Shaykh al-Qummiyin) Written about in 6 books, 14 entries

In this collection

3,322 narrations 73% of them in Al-Kāfi 303 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

Narrated to 4

named by a book

Narrated from the Imams

  • ʿAlī al-Riḍā Ikhtiyār Maʿrifat al-Rijāl
  • Muḥammad al-Jawād Ikhtiyār Maʿrifat al-Rijāl · Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
  • أبو الحسن عليه السلام Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth

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 14 entries and 73 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.