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علي بن جعفر

ʿAlī b. Jaʿfar

ʿAlī b. Jaʿfar was of Qum. Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt and Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ weaken him.

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152 narrations 50% of them in Al-Kāfi

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  • علي بن جعفر
  • على بن جعفر الهرمزاني
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  1. 13-2 Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Aḥmad al-Aswārī al-Mudhakkir narrated to us, he said: Makkī b. Aḥmad b. Saʿdawayh al-Bardhaʿī narrated to us, he said: Abū Muḥammad Zakariyyā b. Yaḥyā b. ʿUbayd al-ʿAṭṭār narrated to us in Damietta, he said: al-Qalānisī narrated to us, he said: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Uwaysī narrated to us, he said: ʿAlī b. Jaʿfar narrated to us; from Muʿattib, the client of Jaʿfar (ʿas); from Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad (ʿas); from his father (ʿas); from his grandfather (ʿas); from ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib (ʿas), who said

    "I asked the Messenger of God (ṣ) about the metamorphosed animals. He answered me, 'They are thirteen: the elephant, the…

    Al-Khiṣāl #1106 Volume 1 Read the narration
  2. 28. `Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn `Imran al-Daqqaq (RA) said: Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Ta’i said: Abu Sa`id Sahl ibn Ziyad al-Adami al-Razi said, on the authority of `Ali ibn Ja`far al-Kufi that

    I heard My Master `Ali ibn Muhammad that Abu Ja`far ibn `Ali related to me, on the authority of his father al-Rida `Ali…

    Al-Tawḥīd #477 Volume 1 Read the narration
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