Narrator

زحر بن عبد الله

Zuhar ibn Allah

Zuhar ibn Allah kept company with al-Bāqir (ʿa) and al-Ṣādiq (ʿa). Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt and Rijāl al-Najāshī hold him reliable.

When he lived

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

Written about in 3 books, 3 entries

In this collection

0 narrations 2 men stand next to him in a chain →

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

Tarājim — his notice in each book

Rijāl al-Najāshī

Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-Najāshī (d. 450) p. 174 thiqa — trustworthy

Entry no. 465

Edition: ed. Mūsā al-Shubayrī al-Zanjānī, Muʾassasat al-Nashr al-Islāmī (Qom); edition number and year not stated in the source

زحر بن عبد الله أبو الحصين الاسدي ثقة، روى عن أبي جعفر وأبي عبد الله عليهما السلام. له كتاب أخبرنا الحسين بن عبيدالله عن أحمد بن جعفر قال: حدثنا حميد قال: حدثنا القاسم بن إسماعيل.

Trustworthy (thiqa), narrated from Abu Ja'far and Abu Abdullah... He has a book.

Listed under al-Bāqir (ʿa), al-Ṣādiq (ʿa)

Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ardabīlī (d. 1101) p. 321 thiqa — trustworthy
زحر بن عبد الله أبو الحصين الأسدي ثقة روى عن أبي جعفر وأبى عبد الله عليهما السلام [صه. جش] له كتاب عنه القاسم بن إسماعيل [جش]

Reliable. Narrated from Abu Ja'far (al-Baqir) and Abu Abdullah (al-Sadiq). Has a book. Al-Qasim ibn Isma'il narrated from him.

Listed under al-Bāqir (ʿa), al-Ṣādiq (ʿa)

Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth

Abū al-Qāsim al-Khoei (d. 1413) p. 137

Vol. 22 Entry no. 14200

Edition: 5th edition, 1413 AH / 1992 CE; editor and publisher not stated in the source

أبو الحصين: عده البرقي في أصحاب الصادق عليه السلام، وتقدم في زحر بن عبد الله.

Also named

  • أبو الحصين
  • زجر بن عبد الله
  • زحر بن عبد الله
  • زحر بن عبد الله أبو الحصين الأسدي
The same names, transliterated
  • Zahra ibn Abd Allah
  • Zajar ibn Abdullah

Attributed, not quoted

Attributed to these books, with no passage of them quoted here, and so not counted among the positions above.

Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth thiqa — trustworthy the quoted passage does not say it
Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl thiqa — trustworthy this book is not in the corpus; the grade is attributed to it, not quoted from it
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Assembled from 3 entries and 3 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.