Narrator

بكر بن الاشعث

Bakr ibn al-Ash'ath

Bakr ibn al-Ash'ath kept company with al-Kāẓim (ʿa) and was of Kufa. Rijāl al-Najāshī holds him reliable.

When he lived

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

From Kufa Written about in 3 books, 3 entries

In this collection

6 narrations 100% of them in Al-Kāfi 1 man stands 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. 275

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

بكر بن الاشعث أبو إسماعيل، كوفي، ثقة، روى عن موسى بن جعفر [ عليه السلام ] كتابا.

Kufi, reliable (thiqa), narrates a book from Musa ibn Ja'far, peace be upon him.

Listed under al-Kāẓim (ʿa)

Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ardabīlī (d. 1101) p. 125
بكر بن الأشعث أبو إسماعيل كوفي ثقة روى عن أبي الحسن موسى عليه السلام [صه.

Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth

Abū al-Qāsim al-Khoei (d. 1413) p. 247

Vol. 4 Entry no. 1842

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

بكر بن الأشعث: أبو إسماعيل، كوفي، ثقة، روى عن موسى بن جعفر عليه السلام كتابا. ذكره النجاشي.

Also named

  • أبي إسماعيل
  • بكر بن الأشعث
  • بكر بن الأشعث أبو إسماعيل كوفي
  • بكر بن الاشعث
The same names, transliterated
  • Abu Isma'il
  • Bakr ibn al-Ash'ath

Attributed, not quoted

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

Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl thiqa — trustworthy this book is not in the corpus; the grade is attributed to it, not quoted from it
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Assembled from 3 entries and 3 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.