Narrator

يحيى بن زكريا بن شيبان

Yahya ibn Zakariyya ibn Shayban

Yahya ibn Zakariyya ibn Shayban kept company with the Mahdī and was of Kindi (tribe). Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth and Rijāl al-Najāshī hold him reliable.

When he lived

The Prophet, then the twelve Imams in order in gold: the Mahdī (ʿa)

From Kindi (tribe) Written about in 3 books, 3 entries

In this collection

8 narrations 75% of them in Kitāb al-Ghayba 11 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 4

named by a book

Narrated to 1

named by a book

  • Yahya (his son) Rijāl al-Najāshī

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.

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Assembled from 3 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.