Narrator

إسماعيل الكاتب

Ismail al-Katib

Ismail al-Katib kept company with al-Bāqir (ʿa) and al-Jawād (ʿa).

مهمل · Muhmal — mentioned, no judgement passed

When he lived

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

In this collection

2 narrations 50% of them in Al-Kāfi 2 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.

Narrated to 1

named by a book

  • أحمد بن إسماعيل الكاتب Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

Narrated from the Imams

  • Muḥammad al-Jawād Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt
  • أبي جعفر عليه السلام Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
  • محمد بن علي عليهما السلام Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth

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.

  • to ابنه أحمد Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
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Assembled from 4 entries and 3 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.