Narrator

محمد بن سماعة

Muhammad ibn Sama'a

Muhammad ibn Sama'a kept company with al-Riḍā (ʿa) and was of Mawla of 'Abd al-Jabbar ibn Wail ibn Hajr. Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt and Rijāl al-Najāshī hold him reliable.

When he lived

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

From Mawla of 'Abd al-Jabbar ibn Wail ibn Hajr Written about in 4 books, 6 entries

In this collection

14 narrations 64% of them in Al-Kāfi 9 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

  • Abd al-Hamid ibn Awwas Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt
  • Muhammad ibn Abd al-Hamid Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

Narrated to 5

named by a book

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

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 6 entries and 6 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.