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.

Narrates from 2

named by a book

  • Abū ʿAbdillāh (al-Ṣādiq) Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ
  • Jābir Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ

Narrated to 1

named by a book

  • ابراهيم بن سليمان الخزاز ابي اسحاق Al-Fihrist

Narrated from the Imams

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.

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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.