Narrator

معلى بن عثمان

Mu'alla ibn 'Uthman

Mu'alla ibn 'Uthman kept company with al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and was of Kufa. Rijāl al-Najāshī holds him reliable.

When he lived

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

From Kufa Written about in 4 books, 12 entries

In this collection

11 narrations 73% of them in Al-Kāfi 28 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 1

named by a book

Mu'alla ibn Khunays Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

Narrated to 6

named by a book

ابن الوليد Al-Fihrist
ابو جعفر بن بابويه Al-Fihrist
احمد بن محمد Al-Fihrist
الصفار Al-Fihrist
صفوان Rijāl al-Najāshī
محمد بن زياد Rijāl al-Najāshī

Narrated from the Imams

Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq Rijāl al-Najāshī · Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth

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.

to ابوه Al-Fihrist

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 Dirst Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
from أبي بصير Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
from المعلى Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
from Mu'alla ibn Khunays Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīthside by side in 4 chains
to Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Isa Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Ahmad ibn al-Mubarak Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Al-Hasan ibn Ali Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to أحمد بن أبي عبد الله Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to إبراهيم بن هاشم Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to ابن فضال Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to الحسن بن محمد بن سماعة Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Al-Hakam al-A'ma Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Ja'far ibn Bashir Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīthside by side in 2 chains
to حميد بن المثنى أبو المغراء Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Safwan ibn Yahya Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīthside by side in 3 chains
to علي بن الحسن بن رباط Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Fadala ibn Ayyub al-Azdi Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīthside by side in 1 chain
to محمد بن عبد الجبار Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Mu'awiyah ibn Hakim Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Yahya ibn Imran ibn Ali Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīthside by side in 4 chains
to Ali ibn Hanazala al-Ajali side by side in 2 chains

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Assembled from 12 entries and 6 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.