Narrator

يعقوب بن شعيب بن ميثم

Ya'qub ibn Shu'ayb ibn Maytham

Ya'qub ibn Shu'ayb ibn Maytham kept company with al-Bāqir (ʿa), al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and al-Kāẓim (ʿa). Rijāl al-Najāshī holds him reliable.

When he lived

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

In this collection

81 narrations 62% of them in Al-Kāfi 37 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. 448

What the books state about him

Ṭabaqa
أصحاب أبي جعفر محمد بن علي بن الحسين عليهم السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
أصحاب أبي عبد الله جعفر بن محمد الصادق عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
أصحاب أبي الحسن موسى بن جعفر الكاظم عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
City or tribe
Banu Asad — Rijāl al-Najāshī

Also named

  • يعقوب بن شعيب
  • يعقوب بن شعيب الحداد
  • يعقوب بن شعيب الميثمي
  • يعقوب بن شعيب بن ميثم
  • يعقوب بن شعيب بن ميثم الأسدي
  • يعقوب بن شعيب بن ميثم الأسدي الكوفي
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Assembled from 10 entries and 12 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.