Narrator

علي بن الريان بن الصلت الاشعري القمي

Ali ibn Rayyan ibn al-Salt al-Ash'ari al-Qummi

Ali ibn Rayyan ibn al-Salt al-Ash'ari al-Qummi kept company with al-Hādī (ʿa) and al-ʿAskarī (ʿa) and was of Qum. Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt and Rijāl al-Najāshī hold him reliable.

When he lived

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

In this collection

24 narrations 67% of them in Al-Kāfi 31 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. 276
Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 579

What the books state about him

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

Also named

  • على بن الريان الأشعري القمي
  • علي بن الريان
  • علي بن الريان بن الصلت
  • علي بن الريان بن الصلت الأشعري
  • علي بن الريان بن الصلت الاشعري القمي
  • علي ومحمد ابنا الريان بن الصلت ت
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Assembled from 9 entries and 8 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.