Narrator

علي بن سويد السائي

Ali ibn Sawayd al-Sa'i

Ali ibn Sawayd al-Sa'i kept company with al-Riḍā (ʿa) and was of al-Saya (Village near Medina). Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt and Rijāl al-Ṭūsī hold him reliable.

When he lived

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

From al-Saya (Village near Medina) Written about in 6 books, 8 entries

In this collection

8 narrations 100% of them in Al-Kāfi 11 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 al-Kadhim Rijāl al-Najāshī

Narrated to 2

named by a book

Narrated from the Imams

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

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Assembled from 8 entries and 3 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.