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.

Narrates from 1

named by a book

  • أبيه Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

Narrated to 5

named by a book

Narrated from the Imams

  • Mūsā al-Kāẓim Ikhtiyār Maʿrifat al-Rijāl · Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
  • أبي الحسن عليه السلام Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt
  • ʿAlī al-Riḍā Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth

Named with him, but not in the entry we hold

These books tie them to him, but the entries we hold do not name them.

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.

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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.