Narrator

يحيى بن عليم الكلبي العليمي

Yahya ibn Aliyam al-Kalbi al-Alimi

Yahya ibn Aliyam al-Kalbi al-Alimi kept company with al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and was of Banu Kalb. The books are divided about him: Rijāl al-Najāshī holds him reliable, while Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ weakens him.

When he lived

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

In this collection

1 narration 100% of them in Al-Kāfi 1 man stands 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. 439
Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ ضعيف ḍaʿīf — weak

A grade is the judgement of the scholar who wrote it. Where the books divide, the chain turns on which of them you follow.

What the books state about him

City or tribe
Banu Kalb — Rijāl al-Najāshī
Halab (Aleppo) — Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ
Kalb (Tribe) — Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

Also named

  • يحيى بن عليم
  • يحيى بن عليم الكلبي العليمي
  • يحيى بن محمد بن عليم
  • الحلبي

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Assembled from 6 entries and 2 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.