Narrator

الحسين بن أسد

al-Ḥusayn b. Asad al-Baṣrī

al-Ḥusayn b. Asad al-Baṣrī kept company with al-Jawād (ʿa) and al-Hādī (ʿa) and was of Basra. Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth and Rijāl al-Ṭūsī hold him reliable.

When he lived

The Prophet, then the twelve Imams in order in gold: al-Jawād (ʿa), al-Hādī (ʿa)

In this collection

4 narrations 50% of them in Kāmil al-Ziyārāt 5 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-Ṭūsī ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 373
Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 2391

What the books state about him

Ṭabaqa
أصحاب أبي جعفر محمد بن علي الثاني عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
أصحاب أبي الحسن الثالث علي بن محمد عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
City or tribe
Basra — Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ

Also named

  • الحسين بن أسد
  • الحسين بن أسد البصري
  • ابن أسد
  • الحسن بن أسد
  • الحسن بن أسد (alleged)

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Assembled from 5 entries and 4 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.