Narrator

سلمان الفارسي

Salman al-Farsi

Salman al-Farsi kept company with the Prophet and ʿAlī and was of Persia (Farsi). Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth holds him reliable.

on an early rijālī, reached through a later compiler

When he lived

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

In this collection

15 narrations 33% of them in Al-Amālī 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 1

named by a book

  • Abu Ja'far Ikhtiyār Maʿrifat al-Rijāl

Narrated to 3

named by a book

  • Abd al-A'la al-Taghlibi Al-Fihrist
  • Abi Waqqas Al-Fihrist
  • Umar ibn Yazid (reporting) Ikhtiyār Maʿrifat al-Rijāl

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 Amir al-Mu'minin Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
  • from Jathliq (Catholicos) Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
  • from Zadhan side by side in 4 chains
  • to Ibn Abi Waqqas Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
  • to Ibrahim ibn al-Hakam al-Asadi Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
  • to Salim ibn Qays al-Hilali Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth · Tanqīḥ al-Maqālside by side in 2 chains
  • to زاذان Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
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Assembled from 9 entries and 14 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.