Narrator
جعفر بن بشير
Ja'far ibn Bashir
Ja'far ibn Bashir kept company with al-Riḍā (ʿa) and was of Kufa and died in 208 AH. Al-Fihrist and Rijāl al-Najāshī hold him reliable.
When he lived
The Prophet, then the twelve Imams in order in gold: al-Riḍā (ʿa)
In this collection
124
narrations
56% of them in Al-Kāfi
208 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
| Rijāl al-Najāshī | ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 117 |
|---|---|
| Al-Fihrist | ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 91 |
| Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth | ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 56 quoting Ikhtiyār Maʿrifat al-Rijāl، Rijāl al-Najāshī |
What the books state about him
- Ṭabaqa
- أصحاب أبي الحسن الثاني علي بن موسى الرضا عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
- City or tribe
- Kufa — Rijāl al-Najāshī and also in Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
- Bajil (Tribe) — Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
- Wasit — Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
- Died
- 208 AH — Rijāl al-Najāshī
- 218 AH — Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
- 2 AH — Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
Also named
- جعفر بن بشير
- جعفر بن بشير أبو محمد البجلي الوشاء من زهاد أصحابنا وعبادهم ونساكهم وكان
- جعفر بن بشير البجلي
- جعفر بن بشير العجلي
- أبو محمد البجلي الوشاء
- ابن بشير
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Assembled from 6 entries and 19 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.