Narrator

يعقوب السراج

Ya'qub al-Sarraj

Ya'qub al-Sarraj kept company with al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and was of Kufa. 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

14 narrations 57% of them in Al-Kāfi 17 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
Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ ضعيف ḍaʿīf — weak
Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 9601 quoting Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ، Rijāl al-Najāshī

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
Kufa — Rijāl al-Najāshī

Also named

  • يعقوب السراج
  • يعقوب بن السراج
  • ابن السراج
  • يعقوب

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Assembled from 5 entries and 5 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.