Rijāl al-Najāshī
p. 124 thiqa — trustworthyEntry no. 327
Edition: ed. Mūsā al-Shubayrī al-Zanjānī, Muʾassasat al-Nashr al-Islāmī (Qom); edition number and year not stated in the source
جعفر بن يحيى بن العلاء ابو محمد الرازي ثقة، وأبوه أيضا. روى أبوه عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلام، وهو أخلط بنا من أبيه وأدخل فينا، وكان أبوه يحيى بن العلاء قاضيا بالري. وكتابه يختلط بكتاب أبيه لانه يروي كتاب أبيه عنه، فربما نسب إلى أبيه، وربما نسب إليه. أخبرنا محمد بن محمد بن النعمان قال: حدثنا جعفر بن محمد بن قولويه قال: حدثنا محمد بن أحمد بن سليم الصابوني بمصر قال: حدثنا موسى بن الحسين بن موسى قال: حدثنا جعفر بن يحيى بن العلاء.
Reliable, and his father also. His father narrated from Abu Abdallah (al-Sadiq). He is closer to us (Shias) than his father and more involved with us. His father, Yahya ibn al-Ala, was a judge in Ray. His book is mixed with his father's book because he narrates his father's book from him, so sometimes it is attributed to his father, and sometimes to him.