Narrator

مفضل بن عمر

Al-Mufaddal ibn Umar

Al-Mufaddal ibn Umar kept company with al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and al-Kāẓim (ʿa) and was of Kufa. Rijāl al-Najāshī weakens him.

When he lived

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

In this collection

185 narrations 34% of them in Al-Kāfi 98 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 جدا very weak p. 413

What the books state about him

Ṭabaqa
أصحاب أبي عبد الله جعفر بن محمد الصادق عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
أصحاب أبي الحسن موسى بن جعفر الكاظم عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
City or tribe
Kufa — Rijāl al-Najāshī
al-Juʿfī (tribe) — Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ

Also named

  • المفضل الجعفي
  • المفضل الجعفي مولى بنى بدى
  • المفضل بن عمر
  • المفضل بن عمر أبو عبد الله
  • المفضل بن عمر لقي أبا عبد الله عليه السلام
  • مفضل بن عمر
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Assembled from 12 entries and 16 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.