Narrator

شعيب بن أعين

Shu'ayb ibn A'yan

Shu'ayb ibn A'yan kept company with al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and was of Kufa. Al-Fihrist and Rijāl al-Najāshī hold him reliable.

When he lived

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

From Kufa Imams Narrated from no Imam Written about in 6 books, 7 entries

In this collection

12 narrations 58% of them in Al-Kāfi 9 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. 193
Al-Fihrist ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 144
Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 4176 quoting Ikhtiyār Maʿrifat al-Rijāl، Rijāl al-Najāshī

What the books state about him

Ṭabaqa
أصحاب أبي عبد الله جعفر بن محمد الصادق عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
باب ذكر أسماء من لم يرو عن واحد من الأئمة عليهم السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
City or tribe
Kufa — Rijāl al-Najāshī

Also named

  • شعيب بن أعين
  • شعيب بن أعين الحداد
  • شعيب بن أعين الحداد الكوفي
  • أبو يعقوب
  • شعيب الحداد

7 entries across 6 books. Pages follow the editions this database holds.

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Assembled from 7 entries and 2 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.