Narrator

داود بن النعمان

Dawud ibn al-Nu'man

Dawud ibn al-Nu'man kept company with al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and al-Riḍā (ʿa). 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-Ṣādiq (ʿa), al-Riḍā (ʿa)

Written about in 5 books, 7 entries

In this collection

21 narrations 57% of them in Al-Kāfi 22 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 1

named by a book

  • Musa al-Kadhim Rijāl al-Najāshī

Narrated to

No book names anyone who takes from him.

9 men stand next to him in a chain →

Narrated from the Imams

  • Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq Rijāl al-Najāshī · Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl · Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
  • أبو الحسن موسى عليه السلام Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
  • ʿAlī al-Riḍā Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth

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 7 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.