Narrator

حميد بن المثنى

Humayd ibn al-Muthanna

Humayd ibn al-Muthanna kept company with al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and was of Kufa. Al-Fihrist, Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt and Rijāl al-Najāshī hold him reliable.

When he lived

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

In this collection

6 narrations 50% of them in Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh 6 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. 131
Al-Fihrist ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 113
Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 284
Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 2966 quoting Al-Fihrist، Rijāl al-Najāshī

What the books state about him

Ṭabaqa
أصحاب أبي عبد الله جعفر بن محمد الصادق عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
City or tribe
Kufa — Rijāl al-Najāshī and also in Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth

Also named

  • حميد بن المثنى
  • حميد بن المثنى العجلي الكوفي
  • حميد بن المثني
  • أبو المغراء
  • أبو المغراء الصيرفي
  • أبوالمغرا العجلي
all 8 names →

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Assembled from 5 entries and 2 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.