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.

Narrates from 2

named by a book

  • Abi Dawud al-Mustaraq Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt
  • Abi Hashim Dawud bin al-Qasim al-Ja'fari Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

Narrated to 2

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Narrated from the Imams

Named with him, but not in the entry we hold

These books tie them to him, but the entries we hold do not name them.

In the same isnād

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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.