Narrator

على بن حديد بن حكيم

Ali ibn Hadid ibn Hakim

Ali ibn Hadid ibn Hakim kept company with al-Riḍā (ʿa) and al-Jawād (ʿa) and was of al-Mada'in (Madaini). The books are divided about him: Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth holds him reliable, while Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth weakens him.

on an early rijālī, reached through a later compiler

When he lived

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

From al-Mada'in (Madaini) Written about in 6 books, 8 entries

In this collection

75 narrations 81% of them in Al-Kāfi 69 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

Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth ضعيف ḍaʿīf — weak p. 51 quoting Al-Fihrist، Ikhtiyār Maʿrifat al-Rijāl، Rijāl al-Najāshī مختلف فيه disputed p. 531 quoting Al-Fihrist، Ikhtiyār Maʿrifat al-Rijāl، Rijāl al-Najāshī ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 686 quoting Al-Fihrist، Ikhtiyār Maʿrifat al-Rijāl، Rijāl al-Najāshī this book takes both sides — see its entries below

A grade is the judgement of the scholar who wrote it. Where the books divide, the chain turns on which of them you follow.

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
City or tribe
al-Mada'in (Madaini) — Rijāl al-Najāshī and also in Al-Fihrist
Kufa — Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt and also in Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt، Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth

Also named

  • على بن حديد بن حكيم
  • علي بن حديد
  • علي بن حديد المدائني
  • علي بن حديد بن حكيم
  • علي بن حديد بن حكيم المدائني الازدي الساباطي
  • أبو جعفر

8 entries across 6 books. Pages follow the editions this database holds.

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Assembled from 8 entries and 25 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.