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.

Narrates from 1

named by a book

Abi al-Haytham ibn al-Tiham Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

Narrated to 2

named by a book

Amr ibn Abi al-Miqdam (via his father) Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt
Malik ibn 'Atiyah (via his father) Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

Narrated from the Imams

ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt · Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl · Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth

Named with him, but not in the entry we hold

These books tie them to him, but the entries we hold do not name them.

to Amr ibn Shumar Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

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 Habba al-'Arni Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
from أبي الهيثم بن التيهان Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
from أبي صادق Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
from رسول اللّه صلّى اللّه عليه و آله و سلّم (via Ali) Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
from سدير Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
from Shahr ibn Hawshab Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
from Muhammad ibn Umar ibn Muhammad ibn Salim side by side in 2 chains
from Yahya ibn Abd Allah ibn Mu'awiyah side by side in 2 chains
to Shu'ba Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
to Thabit ibn Harmuz Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth · Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
to أبيه (via Malik) Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
to الأجلح Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to الأعمش Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to al-Fadl ibn Shadhan ibn al-Khalil Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Sufyan al-Thawri Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
to Shahr ibn Hawshab Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
to عبد الرحمن بن الحجاج (mentioned as entering with him) Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
to Amr ibn Thabit ibn Harmaz Tanqīḥ al-Maqālside by side in 1 chain
to Malik ibn 'Atiyya Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīthside by side in 1 chain

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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.