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.

Narrates from

No book names anyone he narrates from.

8 men stand next to him in a chain →

Narrated to 4

named by a book

  • Mula Abu Uthman Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt
  • أبي عثمان معلى بن زيد الاحول Rijāl al-Najāshī
  • جماعة Rijāl al-Najāshī
  • Safwan ibn Yahya Rijāl al-Najāshī

Narrated from the Imams

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.