Narrator

محمد بن فرات الجعفي

Muhammad ibn Furat al-Ja'fi

Muhammad ibn Furat al-Ja'fi kept company with al-Bāqir (ʿa), al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and al-Riḍā (ʿa) and was of Kufa. Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ and Rijāl al-Najāshī weaken him.

When he lived

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

In this collection

6 narrations 33% of them in Al-Kāfi 5 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

Rijāl al-Najāshī ضعيف ḍaʿīf — weak p. 360
Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ ضعيف ḍaʿīf — weak
Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt كذاب a liar p. 171 quoting Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ، Ikhtiyār Maʿrifat al-Rijāl

What the books state about him

City or tribe
Kufa — Rijāl al-Najāshī and also in Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

Also named

  • محمد بن فرات الجعفي
  • محمد بن فرات بن أحنف
  • محمد بن الفرات
  • محمد بن فرات
  • محمد بن فرات الجرامي

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Assembled from 5 entries and 2 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.