Narrator

العلاء بن الفضيل بن يسار

al-Ala' ibn al-Fadl ibn Yasar

al-Ala' ibn al-Fadl ibn Yasar kept company with al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and was of Basra. Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth and Rijāl al-Najāshī hold him reliable.

When he lived

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

In this collection

13 narrations 38% of them in Al-Kāfi 10 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. 296
Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 5411

What the books state about him

City or tribe
Basra — Rijāl al-Najāshī and also in Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth

Also named

  • العلاء بن الفضيل
  • العلاء بن الفضيل بن يسار
  • العلاء، عن الفضيل

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Assembled from 2 entries and 5 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.