Narrator

داود بن كثير الرقي

Dawud ibn Kathir al-Raqqi

Dawud ibn Kathir al-Raqqi kept company with al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and al-Kāẓim (ʿa) and was of al-Raqqah. The books are divided about him: Rijāl al-Ṭūsī holds him reliable, while Rijāl al-Najāshī weakens him.

When he lived

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

In this collection

60 narrations 55% of them in Al-Kāfi 35 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 ضعيف جدا very weak p. 154
Rijāl al-Ṭūsī ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 335

A grade is the judgement of the scholar who wrote it. Where the books divide, the chain turns on which of them you follow.

What the books state about him

Ṭabaqa
أصحاب أبي عبد الله جعفر بن محمد الصادق عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
أصحاب أبي الحسن موسى بن جعفر الكاظم عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
City or tribe
al-Raqqah — Rijāl al-Najāshī
al-Raqqa — Al-Fihrist
Died
200 AH — Rijāl al-Najāshī

Also named

  • داود الجمال
  • داود الرقي
  • داود الرقي هو ابن كثير الرقي ويأتي
  • داود بن كثير
  • داود بن كثير الرقي
  • داود بن كثير الرقي أيضا
all 8 names →

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

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Assembled from 10 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.