Narrator

سيف بن عميرة النخعي

Sayf ibn 'Umāra al-Nakha'ī

Sayf ibn 'Umāra 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.

Jarḥ wa taʿdīl

Rijāl al-Najāshī ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 188
Al-Fihrist ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 139
Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 394

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
Kufa (Nakha' tribe - Arab) — Rijāl al-Najāshī and also in Al-Fihrist

Also named

  • سيف
  • سيف بن عميرة
  • سيف بن عميرة النخعي
  • سيف بن عميرة النخعي الكوفي
  • الكوفي
  • النخعي
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7 entries across 5 books. Pages follow the editions this database holds.

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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.