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.

Narrates from

No book names anyone he narrates from.

4 men stand next to him in a chain →

Narrated to 5

named by a book

  • Husayn ibn Ubayd Allah Rijāl al-Najāshī
  • Ibn Batta Rijāl al-Najāshī
  • al-Barqi Rijāl al-Najāshī
  • al-Hasan ibn Hamza Rijāl al-Najāshī
  • al-Hasan ibn Mahbub Rijāl al-Najāshī

Narrated from the Imams

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.

  • from Jaber Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
  • from Jabir ibn Yazid al-Ju'fi Tanqīḥ al-Maqālside by side in 3 chains
  • from Ya'qub al-Sarraj Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
  • from Ali bin Ri'ab side by side in 2 chains
  • to Ibn Mahbub Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīthside by side in 10 chains
  • to Muhammad bin Sannan Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
  • to أحمد بن محمد Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
  • to أحمد بن محمد بن خالد Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
  • to أحمد بن محمد بن عيسى Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
  • to إبراهيم بن هاشم Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
  • to العباس بن معروف Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
  • to Ali bin Ri'ab side by side in 2 chains
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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.