Narrator

سالم بن مكرم بن عبد الله

Sālim ibn Mukram ibn 'Abd Allāh

Sālim ibn Mukram ibn 'Abd Allāh kept company with al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and was of Kufa (Kananas). The books are divided about him: Rijāl al-Najāshī holds him reliable, while Al-Fihrist weakens him.

When he lived

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

In this collection

15 narrations 40% of them in Al-Kāfi 21 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. 187
Al-Fihrist ضعيف ḍaʿīf — weak p. 140

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
City or tribe
Kufa (Kananas) — Rijāl al-Najāshī
Kinana (per footnote) — Al-Fihrist

Also named

  • أبو خديجة
  • أبو خديجة سالم بن مكرم
  • أبو سلمة الجمال
  • سالم أبو خديجة
  • سالم أبو سلمة
  • سالم بن أبي خديجة
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Assembled from 14 entries and 14 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.