Narrator

ثوير بن أبي فاختة

Thawr ibn Abi Fakhta

Thawr ibn Abi Fakhta kept company with al-Sajjād (ʿa), al-Bāqir (ʿa) and al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and was of Kufa. Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth holds him reliable.

on an early rijālī, reached through a later compiler

When he lived

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

In this collection

5 narrations 40% of them in Al-Kāfi 7 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 ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 1576 quoting Ikhtiyār Maʿrifat al-Rijāl، Rijāl al-Najāshī

What the books state about him

Ṭabaqa
أصحاب أبي محمد علي بن الحسين عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
أصحاب أبي جعفر محمد بن علي بن الحسين عليهم السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
أصحاب أبي عبد الله جعفر بن محمد الصادق عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
City or tribe
Kufa — Rijāl al-Najāshī

Also named

  • ثوير بن أبي فاختة
  • أبو الجهم
  • أبو جهم
  • أبو جهم الكوفي
  • ثور بن أبي فاختة
  • ثوير
all 7 names →

6 entries across 4 books. Pages follow the editions this database holds.

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Assembled from 6 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.