Narrator

علي بن مهزيار

Ali ibn Mahzyar

Ali ibn Mahzyar kept company with al-Riḍā (ʿa), al-Jawād (ʿa) and al-Hādī (ʿa) and was of Ahwaz. 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-Riḍā (ʿa), al-Jawād (ʿa), al-Hādī (ʿa)

In this collection

300 narrations 48% of them in Al-Kāfi 184 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. 251
Al-Fihrist ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 151
Rijāl al-Ṭūsī ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 359
Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 603

What the books state about him

Ṭabaqa
أصحاب أبي الحسن الثاني علي بن موسى الرضا عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
أصحاب أبي جعفر محمد بن علي الثاني عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
أصحاب أبي الحسن الثالث علي بن محمد عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
City or tribe
Ahwaz — Rijāl al-Najāshī and also in Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

Also named

  • ابن مهزيار
  • علي بن مهزيار
  • علي بن مهزيار الأهوازي
  • علي بن مهزيار الاهوازي
  • أبو الحسن
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10 entries across 6 books. Pages follow the editions this database holds.

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Assembled from 10 entries and 28 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.