Narrator

الفضل بن شاذان بن الخليل

al-Fadl ibn Shadhan ibn al-Khalil

al-Fadl ibn Shadhan ibn al-Khalil kept company with al-Hādī (ʿa) and al-ʿAskarī (ʿa) and was of Nishapur. Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt and Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth hold him reliable.

on an early rijālī, reached through a later compiler

When he lived

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

In this collection

527 narrations 82% of them in Al-Kāfi 72 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

Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 4 quoting Ikhtiyār Maʿrifat al-Rijāl
Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 4561 quoting Al-Fihrist، Ikhtiyār Maʿrifat al-Rijāl، Rijāl al-Najāshī

What the books state about him

Ṭabaqa
أصحاب أبي الحسن الثالث علي بن محمد عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
أصحاب أبي محمد الحسن بن علي بن محمد بن علي الرضا عليهم السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
City or tribe
Nishapur — Rijāl al-Najāshī and also in Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
Nishabur (Qum) — Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
Qum/Nishapur — Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
Died
260 AH — Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
250 AH — Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth

Also named

  • الفضل بن شاذان
  • الفضل بن شاذان النيسابوري
  • الفضل بن شاذان النيشابوري
  • الفضل بن شاذان بن الخليل
  • الفضل بن شاذان نيشابوري
  • أبو محمد
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Assembled from 7 entries and 35 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.