Narrator

أحمد بن هلال

Ahmad ibn Hilal

Ahmad ibn Hilal kept company with al-Hādī (ʿa) and al-ʿAskarī (ʿa) and was of Banu Junayd; Abarata and died in 267 AH. Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth weakens him.

on an early rijālī, reached through a later compiler

When he lived

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

From Banu Junayd; Abarata Died 267 AH Written about in 6 books, 7 entries

In this collection

52 narrations 31% of them in Kitāb al-Ghayba 63 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

Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth ضعيف ḍaʿīf — weak p. 3691 quoting Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ، Ikhtiyār Maʿrifat al-Rijāl، Rijāl al-Najāshī

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
Banu Junayd; Abarata — Al-Fihrist
بنواحي بلد إسكاف (عبرتا), بغداد, الكرخ — Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
Kufa — Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
Died
267 AH — Rijāl al-Najāshī

Also named

  • أحمد بن هلال
  • أحمد بن هلال العبرتائي
  • احمد بن هلال العبرتائي
  • أبو جعفر
  • أبو جعفر العبرتائي
  • أحمد بن محمد بن عبد الله
all 12 names →

7 entries across 6 books. Pages follow the editions this database holds.

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Assembled from 7 entries and 25 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.