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علي بن ميسرة البصري

Ali ibn Mayyara al-Basri

Ali ibn Mayyara al-Basri kept company with al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and al-Jawād (ʿa) and was of Basra.

مهمل · Muhmal — mentioned, no judgement passed

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

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8 narrations 50% of them in Al-Kāfi 5 men stand next to him in a chain →

Counted from the narrations and chains this database holds — not a record of everything he transmitted.

Every narration whose chain this database resolves to him — the figure his seal draws. Resolved name by name, so a namesake of his is not among them.

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  1. 4. It was narrated to me by Muhammad b. al-Hassan who said it was narrated to us by Muhammad b. al-Hassan al-Saffar from Ahmad b. al-Hussain b. Sa’eed from Ali b. Maysar from his father from Abi Abdillah (a.s.) who said

    “If a child of a person passes away from this world, he/she is better than seventy children who are alive and that child…

    Thawāb al-Aʿmāl wa ʿiqāb al-Aʿmāl #755 Volume 1 Read the narration
  2. 12. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from al- Hassan ibn Ali from Ali ibn Maysir who has said the following

    “When Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) went to meet Mansur al-‘Abbasi. He (Mansur) told his slave to stand ready and as soon as Abu…

    Al-Kāfi #1933 Volume 2 Read the narration
  3. And whatever is narrated from Ali ibn Maysarah, I have narrated it from my father - may Allah (swt) be pleased with him…

    Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh #273 Volume 5 Read the narration
  4. 1. Al-Husayn ibn Muhammad has narrated from Mu’alia ibn Muhammad from al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Washsha’ from Ali ibn Maysara who has said the following

    “Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.) has said, ‘The seed for a believer may exist in the loins of a pagan and it is not affected by…

    Al-Kāfi #22 Volume 2 Read the narration
  5. 6. Sahl ibn Ziyad has narrated from Muhammad ibn ‘Uramah from Ali ibn Maysarah from Ishaq ibn ‘Ammar who has said the following

    “Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), has said that a husband is more rightful to place his wife in the grave.”

    Al-Kāfi #737 Volume 3 Read the narration
  6. 3. My father, may Allah grant him mercy, said: We were told by Sa’d bin Abdullah, from Ahmad bin Abi Abdillah, from Ali ibn Maysara, from Abu Ziyad al-Makki, that he said

    I heard Abu’l-Hasan, peace be upon him, say: None rejects generosity except for a donkey. By that he meant (that one is…

    Maʿānī al-ʾAkhbār #513 Volume 1 Read the narration
  7. 1. We were told by my father, may Allah grant him mercy, that he said: We were told by Sa’d bin Abdullah, that he said: We were told by Ahmad bin Muhammed bin Isa, from Hasan bin Ali al-Washha’, from Ali bin Maysara, that he said: Abu Abdillah, peace be upon him, said

    Beware from being benefactors. I said: May I be sacrificed for you, how is that? He said: (It is that) One of you would…

    Maʿānī al-ʾAkhbār #186 Volume 1 Read the narration
  8. 7. Certain individuals of our people have narrated from Ali ibn ‘Abbas from Ali ibn Maysir from Hammad ibn al-Nusaybi who has said the following: “A man asked the scholar (a.s.) ‘O scholar, tell me which deed is more virtuous before Allah?’ He said, ‘

    It is the deed without which Allah does not accept any deed.’ He asked, ‘What is such thing?’ He said, ‘It is belief in…

    Al-Kāfi #78 Volume 2 Read the narration
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