Narrator

محمد بن جعفر بن محمد بن علي

Muhammad ibn Ja'far ibn Muhammad ibn Ali

Muhammad ibn Ja'far ibn Muhammad ibn Ali kept company with al-Ṣādiq (ʿa). Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth holds him reliable.

on an early rijālī, reached through a later compiler

When he lived

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

In this collection

3 narrations 67% of them in Al-Amālī 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.

Narrates from

No book names anyone he narrates from.

1 man stands next to him in a chain →

Narrated to 1

named by a book

  • أحمد بن الوليد بن برد Rijāl al-Najāshī

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.

  • from أبوه 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.

  • from آبائه (his fathers) Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
  • to Ahmad ibn al-Walid ibn Bard Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
  • to Hassan ibn Muhammad al-Nawfali (reportedly sent as messenger) Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
  • to Khadijah bint Abdullah ibn al-Husayn (his wife) Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
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Assembled from 4 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.