Narrator

علي بن جعفر بن محمد

Ali ibn Ja'far ibn Muhammad

Ali ibn Ja'far ibn Muhammad kept company with al-Ṣādiq (ʿa), al-Kāẓim (ʿa) and al-Riḍā (ʿa) and was of Medina / al-Arid. Al-Fihrist, Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt and Rijāl al-Ṭūsī hold him reliable.

When he lived

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

From Medina / al-Arid Written about in 6 books, 9 entries

In this collection

63 narrations 78% of them in Al-Kāfi 20 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

Al-Fihrist ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 150
Rijāl al-Ṭūsī ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 358
Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 561 quoting Ikhtiyār Maʿrifat al-Rijāl

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
أصحاب أبي الحسن الثاني علي بن موسى الرضا عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
City or tribe
Medina / al-Arid — Rijāl al-Najāshī and also in Ikhtiyār Maʿrifat al-Rijāl

Also named

  • على بن جعفر بن محمد بن على بن الحسين بن على بن أبى طالب
  • علي بن جعفر
  • علي بن جعفر بن محمد
  • علي بن جعفر بن محمد بن علي بن الحسين
  • علي بن جعفر بن محمد بن علي بن الحسين بن علي بن أبي طالب
  • علي بن جعفر بن محمد بن علي بن الحسين بن علي بن أبي طالب عليهم السلام
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9 entries across 6 books. Pages follow the editions this database holds.

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Assembled from 9 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.