Narrator

محمد بن علي بن النعمان

Muhammad ibn Ali ibn al-Numan

Muhammad ibn Ali ibn al-Numan kept company with al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and was of Kufa. Al-Fihrist and Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt hold him reliable.

When he lived

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

In this collection

32 narrations 63% of them in Al-Kāfi 37 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

Al-Fihrist ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 206
Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 157

What the books state about him

Ṭabaqa
أصحاب أبي عبد الله جعفر بن محمد الصادق عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
City or tribe
Kufa — Rijāl al-Najāshī and also in Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

Also named

  • أبو جعفر شاه طاق
  • الأحول
  • شاه طاق
  • صاحب الطاق
  • طاقي
  • مؤمن الطاق
all 25 names →

21 entries across 6 books. Pages follow the editions this database holds.

Report an issue with this page Tell us the book and page it should follow.

Assembled from 21 entries and 18 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.