Narrator

محمد بن الحسين بن أبي الخطاب

Muhammad ibn al-Husayn ibn Abi al-Khattab

Muhammad ibn al-Husayn ibn Abi al-Khattab kept company with al-Jawād (ʿa), al-Hādī (ʿa) and al-ʿAskarī (ʿa) and was of Hamadan and died in 262 AH. Al-Fihrist, Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt, Rijāl al-Najāshī and Rijāl al-Ṭūsī hold him reliable.

When he lived

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

From Hamadan Died 262 AH Written about in 5 books, 7 entries

In this collection

986 narrations 45% of them in Al-Kāfi 120 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

No book names anyone he narrates from.

49 men stand next to him in a chain →

Narrated to 5

named by a book

  • الصفار Rijāl al-Najāshī · Al-Fihrist
  • Al-Hamiri Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt
  • Ibn Abi Jid Al-Fihrist
  • Ibn al-Walid Al-Fihrist
  • Sahh ibn Abdullah Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

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