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)

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.

Jarḥ wa taʿdīl

Rijāl al-Najāshī ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 415

What the books state about him

City or tribe
Kufa — Rijāl al-Najāshī

Also named

  • أبو عثمان
  • أبو عثمان الأحول
  • أبو عثمان الاحول
  • معلى أبو عثمان
  • معلى أبو عثمان الأحول
  • معلى أبو عثمان الاحول
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12 entries across 4 books. Pages follow the editions this database holds.

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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.