Narrator

معلى بن خنيس

Mu'alla ibn Khunays

Mu'alla ibn Khunays kept company with al-Ṣādiq (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)

In this collection

63 narrations 63% of them in Al-Kāfi 60 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. 415

What the books state about him

Ṭabaqa
أصحاب أبي عبد الله جعفر بن محمد الصادق عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
City or tribe
Kufa — Rijāl al-Najāshī
Medina, Kufa — Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

Also named

  • المعلى بن خنيس
  • المعلى بن خنيس المدني
  • معلى بن خنيس
  • معلى بن خنيس أبو عبد الله
  • ابن خنيس
  • المسمعي
all 11 names →

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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.