Narrator

علي بن سيف بن عميرة النخعي

Ali ibn Sufyan ibn Umaira al-Nakha'i

Ali ibn Sufyan ibn Umaira al-Nakha'i kept company with al-Riḍā (ʿa) and was of Kufa. Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt and Rijāl al-Najāshī hold him reliable.

When he lived

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

From Kufa Written about in 4 books, 5 entries

In this collection

39 narrations 41% of them in Al-Kāfi 26 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

No book names anyone he narrates from.

14 men stand next to him in a chain →

Narrated to 2

named by a book

Yahya ibn Zakariya ibn Shayban Rijāl al-Najāshī
Al-Hasan ibn Sayf ibn Umayrah Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

Narrated from the Imams

ʿAlī al-Riḍā Rijāl al-Najāshī · Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt · 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.

from أبيه Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt
to Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Isa al-Ash'ari Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt
to Salama ibn al-Khaṭṭāb Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

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.

from Abu al-Mighra Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
from Al-Husayn his brother Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
from Al-Husayn ibn Sayf (his brother) Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
from Fadl ibn Malik al-Nakha'i Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
from His Father Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
from Hissan ibn Mihran Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
from Isma'il ibn Qutayba Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīthside by side in 1 chain
from Salma Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
from Sayf ibn Umayra (his father) Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
from Tufayl ibn Malik al-Nakha'i Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
from Umar ibn Shamar Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
from Muhammad ibn Yahya al-'Attar side by side in 3 chains
from Al-Husayn ibn Sayf ibn 'Amira side by side in 3 chains
from Yahya ibn Zakariyya ibn Shayban side by side in 2 chains
to Ahmad Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Al-Hasan his brother Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Al-Husayn his brother Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Muhammad ibn al-Walid Shabab al-Sayrafi Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Salma ibn al-Khattab Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Sayf ibn 'Umāra al-Nakha'ī side by side in 16 chains
to Muhammad ibn Ubayda side by side in 3 chains
to Al-Husayn ibn Sayf ibn 'Amira side by side in 3 chains
to Aban ibn Uthman al-Ahmar al-Bajali side by side in 2 chains
to Amr ibn Shumar side by side in 2 chains

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Assembled from 5 entries and 4 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.