Narrator

سيف بن عميرة النخعي

Sayf ibn 'Amira al-Nakha'ī

Sayf ibn 'Amira al-Nakha'ī kept company with al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and al-Kāẓim (ʿa) and was of Kufa (Nakha' tribe - Arab). Al-Fihrist, Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt and Rijāl al-Najāshī hold him reliable.

When he lived

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

From Kufa (Nakha' tribe - Arab) Written about in 5 books, 7 entries

In this collection

256 narrations 59% of them in Al-Kāfi 148 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

  • al-Kadhim Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

Narrated to 7

named by a book

  • Hamid ibn Uthman Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt
  • Hasan ibn Ali ibn Abi Hamza Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt
  • Isma'il ibn Bashshar Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt
  • Muhammad ibn Khalid al-Tayyalisi Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt
  • Yunis Abu al-Harith Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt
  • علي بن الحكم Al-Fihrist
  • Muhammad ibn Khalid ibn Umar al-Tayalisi al-Tamimi Rijāl al-Najāshī

Narrated from the Imams

Named with him, but not in the entry we hold

These books tie them to him, but the entries we hold do not name them.

In the same isnād

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Assembled from 7 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.