Narrator

عبد الله بن سنان بن طريف

Abdullah ibn Sinan ibn Tarif

Abdullah ibn Sinan ibn Tarif kept company with al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and al-Kāẓim (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), al-Kāẓim (ʿa)

From Kufa Written about in 5 books, 8 entries

In this collection

682 narrations 59% of them in Al-Kāfi 62 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

Abu al-Hasan Musa (disputed) Rijāl al-Najāshī

Narrated to 6

named by a book

Abdullah ibn Jiblah Rijāl al-Najāshī
Al-Hasan ibn Suma'ah Rijāl al-Najāshī
جعفر بن عبد الله العلوي Al-Fihrist
Ali ibn Ibrahim ibn Hashim Al-Fihrist
Muhammad ibn Abi Umayr Ziyad ibn Isa Al-Fihrist
محمد بن علي الهمداني Al-Fihrist

Narrated from the Imams

Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq Rijāl al-Najāshī

In the same isnād

Each stands next to his name in an isnād — one took straight from the other — and no book calls them teacher or pupil. Each row says where that comes from: a book's chain index, or the chains this database holds.

from al-Hasan ibn Mahbub al-Sarrad side by side in 131 chains
from Al-Nadr ibn Suwayd side by side in 41 chains
from Al-Hasan ibn 'Ali ibn Ziyad al-Washa' side by side in 38 chains
from Abdullah ibn al-Mughira side by side in 37 chains
from Yunus ibn Abd al-Rahman side by side in 24 chains
from Muhammad ibn Isa ibn Ubayd al-Yaqutini side by side in 16 chains
from Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Najran side by side in 15 chains
from Durasat ibn Abi Mansur Muhammad side by side in 12 chains
from Safwan ibn Yahya side by side in 12 chains
from Abdullah ibn Hammad al-Ansari side by side in 12 chains
from al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Suma'a side by side in 11 chains
from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Nasr Zayd side by side in 11 chains
from Ali ibn Mu'bad side by side in 11 chains
from Fadala ibn Ayyub al-Azdi side by side in 11 chains
from Ziyad bin Marwan side by side in 8 chains
from Sa'dan ibn Muslim side by side in 8 chains
from Musa ibn Sa'dan al-Hannat side by side in 8 chains
from al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Faddal side by side in 7 chains
from Yunus, maternal uncle of Abi al-Mustahil side by side in 7 chains
from Muhammad ibn Khalid ibn Abd al-Rahman side by side in 6 chains
from Ibrahim ibn Hashim side by side in 5 chains
from al-Qasim ibn Yahya ibn al-Hasan ibn Rashid side by side in 5 chains
from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalid al-Barqi side by side in 4 chains
from Abu Khalid al-Kabuli side by side in 4 chains
from Al-Husayn ibn Sa'id side by side in 4 chains
from Aban ibn Uthman al-Ahmar al-Bajali side by side in 3 chains
from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Isa al-Ash'ari side by side in 3 chains
from Hammad ibn 'Isa side by side in 3 chains
from Sa'd ibn Allah ibn Abi Khalf side by side in 3 chains
from Abd Allah ibn Jabla side by side in 3 chains
from Yahya ibn 'Amr side by side in 3 chains
from Ibrahim ibn Abd al-Hamid side by side in 2 chains
from Ahmad ibn Umar ibn Abi Shu'ba al-Halabi side by side in 2 chains
from Ja'far ibn Bashir side by side in 2 chains
from Hammad ibn Uthman side by side in 2 chains
from Sahl ibn Ziyād side by side in 2 chains
from Abdullah ibn Maskan side by side in 2 chains
from Ali ibn Aqaba ibn Khalid al-Asadi side by side in 2 chains
from Uthman ibn Isa side by side in 2 chains
from Ubayd Allah bin Abd Allah al-Dahqan al-Wasiti side by side in 2 chains
from al-Husayn ibn Yazid al-Nawfali side by side in 2 chains
from Muhammad ibn Yahya al-'Attar side by side in 2 chains
from Ali ibn Asbat ibn Salim side by side in 2 chains
from Ishaq ibn Ammar al-Sabati side by side in 2 chains
from Abdullah ibn al-Qasim al-Hadrami side by side in 2 chains
to Thabit ibn Abi Safiyya side by side in 16 chains
to Ma'ruf bin Kharbud side by side in 6 chains
to Sinan ibn Tarif al-Thawri side by side in 4 chains
to Abdullah ibn Abi Ya'fur side by side in 3 chains
to Ismail ibn Jabir al-Jaufi side by side in 2 chains
to Darih ibn Muhammad ibn Yazid side by side in 2 chains
to Muhammad ibn Muslim ibn Rabbah side by side in 2 chains
to Muhammad b. al-Munkadir side by side in 2 chains
to Al-Walid ibn Subayh side by side in 2 chains
to Mi'adh ibn Kathir al-Kisa'i side by side in 2 chains

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Assembled from 8 entries. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.