Narrator

كثير بن كلثم

Kathir ibn Kulthum

Kathir ibn Kulthum kept company with al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and was of Kufan. Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt and Rijāl al-Najāshī hold him reliable.

When he lived

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

From Kufan Written about in 4 books, 4 entries

In this collection

1 narration 100% of them in Al-Kāfi 2 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 1

named by a book

  • Abu Ja'far Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

Narrated to

No book names anyone who takes from him.

1 man stands next to him in a chain →

Narrated from the Imams

  • Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt · Rijāl al-Najāshī
  • أبي جعفر عليه السلام Rijāl al-Najāshī

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 4 entries and 1 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.