Narrator

عمر بن أبان الكلبي

Umar ibn Aban al-Kalbi

Umar ibn Aban al-Kalbi kept company with al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and was of Kufa. Rijāl al-Najāshī holds him reliable.

When he lived

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

In this collection

57 narrations 60% of them in Al-Kāfi 51 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. 283

What the books state about him

Ṭabaqa
أصحاب أبي عبد الله جعفر بن محمد الصادق عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
City or tribe
Kufa — Rijāl al-Najāshī
Kalb (Tribe) — Al-Fihrist

Also named

  • عمر بن أبان
  • عمر بن أبان الكلبي
  • عمر بن ابان الكلبي
  • عمر بن ابان الكلبي أبو حفص مولى كوفي

6 entries across 5 books. Pages follow the editions this database holds.

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Assembled from 6 entries and 12 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.