Narrator

بكر بن جناح

Bakr ibn Janah

Bakr ibn Janah was of Kufa. Rijāl al-Najāshī holds him reliable.

From Kufa Written about in 3 books, 3 entries

In this collection

2 narrations 100% of them in Al-Kāfi 5 men stand next to him in a chain →

Counted from the narrations and chains this database holds — not a record of everything he transmitted.

Tarājim — his notice in each book

Rijāl al-Najāshī

Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-Najāshī (d. 450) p. 107 thiqa — trustworthy

Entry no. 274

Edition: ed. Mūsā al-Shubayrī al-Zanjānī, Muʾassasat al-Nashr al-Islāmī (Qom); edition number and year not stated in the source

بكر بن جناح أبو محمد، كوفي، ثقة، مولى، له كتاب يرويه عدة. أخبرناه الحسين قال: حدثنا أحمد بن جعفر قال: حدثنا حميد قال: حدثنا الحسن بن محمد بن سماعة قال: حدثنا محمد بن أبي عمير عن بكر بن جناح به.

Kufi, reliable (thiqa), a mawla. He has a book narrated by several people.

Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ardabīlī (d. 1101) p. 125
بكر بن جناح أبو محمد كوفي ثقة مولى [صه. جش]

Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth

Abū al-Qāsim al-Khoei (d. 1413) p. 248

Vol. 4 Entry no. 1847

Edition: 5th edition, 1413 AH / 1992 CE; editor and publisher not stated in the source

بكر بن جناح: قال النجاشي: " بكر بن جناح، أبو محمد، كوفي، ثقة، مولى له كتاب، يرويه عدة، أخبرناه الحسين، قال: حدثنا أحمد بن جعفر، قال: حدثنا حميد، قال: حدثنا الحسن بن محمد بن سماعة، قال: حدثنا محمد بن أبي عمير، عن بكر بن جناح، به ".

Also named

  • أبو محمد بكر بن جناح
  • بكر بن جناح
  • بكر بن جناح أبو عبد اللّه
  • بكر بن جناح أبو محمد
  • بكر بن جناح أبو محمد كوفي
The same names, transliterated
  • Abu Muhammad Bakr bin Janah
  • Bakr ibn Janah
  • Bakr ibn Jinah Abu Abdullah
  • Bakr ibn Jinah Abu Muhammad

Attributed, not quoted

Attributed to these books, with no passage of them quoted here, and so not counted among the positions above.

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Assembled from 3 entries and 4 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.