Narrator

صفوان بن يحيى

Safwan ibn Yahya

Safwan ibn Yahya kept company with al-Kāẓim (ʿa), al-Riḍā (ʿa) and al-Jawād (ʿa) and was of Kufa and died in 210 AH. Al-Fihrist, Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt, Rijāl al-Najāshī and Rijāl al-Ṭūsī hold him reliable.

When he lived

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

From Kufa Died 210 AH Written about in 6 books, 11 entries

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1,052 narrations 72% of them in Al-Kāfi 339 men stand next to him in a chain →

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Every narration whose chain this database resolves to him — the figure his seal draws. Resolved name by name, so a namesake of his is not among them.

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Al-Kāfi 759 Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh 101 Muʿjam al-Aḥādīth al-Muʿtabara 35 Kāmil al-Ziyārāt 32 Maʿānī al-ʾAkhbār 21 Thawāb al-Aʿmāl wa ʿiqāb al-Aʿmāl 21 Al-Khiṣāl 20 Al-Tawḥīd 20
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Marriage 89 Ahl al-Bayt 70 Ihram 58 Divorce 52 Supplication 52 Trade 52 Circumambulation (Tawaf) 50 Fasting 45 Prophet Muhammad 41 Zakat 36 Qur'an 35 Inheritance 34 Women 34 Ziyarat 33 Hunting and Slaughter 31 Menstruation (Hayd) 30 Sacrifice/Offering 30 Food and Drink 29

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  1. 13. Abu Ali ai-Ash’ariy has narrated from Muhammad ibn ‘Abd af-Jabbar from Safwan ibn Yahya from ibn Muskan from ‘Amir ibn ‘Amirah who has said the following

    “I once asked abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), about the case of the issue that I had heard from him (the Imam) and he (the Imam)…

    Al-Kāfi #959 Volume 4 Read the narration
  2. 7. Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan ibn ‘Ali ibn Mahziyār narrated to me from his father, from ‘Ali ibn Mahziyār, from Ḥasan ibn Sa’īd, from Safwān ibn Yaḥyā, from Ḥarīz, and from Ḥasan ibn Maḥbūb, from Jamīl ibn Sāliḥ, from Fuďayl ibn Yasār, who said

    Abū Ja’far (Imam Bāqir (a.s.)) and Abū ‘Abdillāh (Imam Sādiq (a.s.)) said: Going to the Ziyārah of the grave of the…

    Kāmil al-Ziyārāt #433 Volume 1 Read the narration
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Assembled from 11 entries and 38 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.