Narrator

حفص بن غياث بن طلق بن معاوية

Hafs ibn Ghyath ibn Talaq ibn Mu'awiyah

Hafs ibn Ghyath ibn Talaq ibn Mu'awiyah kept company with al-Bāqir (ʿa), al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and al-Kāẓim (ʿa) and was of Kufa and died in 194 AH. 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-Bāqir (ʿa), al-Ṣādiq (ʿa), al-Kāẓim (ʿa)

From Kufa Died 194 AH Imams Narrated from no Imam Written about in 5 books, 10 entries

In this collection

70 narrations 40% of them in Al-Kāfi 19 men stand next to him in a chain →

Counted from the narrations and chains this database holds — not a record of everything he transmitted.

Narrates from

No book names anyone he narrates from.

6 men stand next to him in a chain →

Narrated to 1

named by a book

  • محمد بن حفص Al-Fihrist

Narrated from the Imams

In the same isnād

Each stands next to his name in an isnād — one took straight from the other — and no book calls them teacher or pupil. Each row says where that comes from: a book's chain index, or the chains this database holds.

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Assembled from 10 entries and 7 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.