Narrator

سلمة بن كهيل

Salma ibn Khil

Salma ibn Khil kept company with ʿAlī, al-Sajjād (ʿa), al-Bāqir (ʿa) and al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and was of Kufa. 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: ʿAlī (ʿa), al-Sajjād (ʿa), al-Bāqir (ʿa), al-Ṣādiq (ʿa)

From Kufa Written about in 4 books, 7 entries

In this collection

10 narrations 40% of them in Al-Amālī 22 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

Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 3481 quoting Ikhtiyār Maʿrifat al-Rijāl، Rijāl al-Najāshī

What the books state about him

Ṭabaqa
أسماء من روى عن أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
أصحاب أبي محمد علي بن الحسين عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
أصحاب أبي جعفر محمد بن علي بن الحسين عليهم السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
أصحاب أبي عبد الله جعفر بن محمد الصادق عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
City or tribe
Kufa — Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt
كوفي — Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth

Also named

  • سلمة بن كهيل
  • سلمة بن كهيل بن الحصين
  • سلمة بن كهيل وأبى المقدام وسالم بن أبي حفصة وكثير النواء
  • أبو يحيى الحضرمي الكوفي
  • بن كهيل بن الحصيني
  • تابعي
all 11 names →

7 entries across 4 books. Pages follow the editions this database holds.

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Assembled from 7 entries and 12 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.