Narrator
عمرو بن شمر
Amr ibn Shimr
Amr ibn Shimr kept company with al-Bāqir (ʿa) and al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and was of Ja'fi (tribe). Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ and Rijāl al-Najāshī weaken him.
When he lived
The Prophet, then the twelve Imams in order in gold: al-Bāqir (ʿa), al-Ṣādiq (ʿa)
From
Ja'fi (tribe)
Written about in
5 books, 6 entries
In this collection
189
narrations
46% 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.
Jarḥ wa taʿdīl
| Rijāl al-Najāshī | ضعيف جدا very weak p. 285 |
|---|---|
| Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ | ضعيف ḍaʿīf — weak |
What the books state about him
- Ṭabaqa
- أصحاب أبي جعفر محمد بن علي بن الحسين عليهم السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
- أصحاب أبي عبد الله جعفر بن محمد الصادق عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
- City or tribe
- Ja'fi (tribe) — Rijāl al-Najāshī
- Juʿfī (tribe) — Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ
Also named
- عمرو بن شمر
- عمرو بن شمر بن يزيد
- أبو عبد الله الجعفي
- الجعفي
6 entries across 5 books. Pages follow the editions this database holds.
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Assembled from 6 entries. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.