سهل بن حنيف
Sahl bin Hanif
Sahl bin Hanif kept company with the Prophet and ʿAlī and was of Medina. 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: the Prophet (ṣ), ʿAlī (ʿa)
In this collection
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 2
named by a book
- Abdillah bin Ahmed (in chain) Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt
- Ali (a) (prayer at his funeral) Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt
Narrated from the Imams
- The Prophet Muḥammad Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
- النبي صلّى اللّه عليه و آله و سلّم Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
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 Abdullah ibn Abbas Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
- to Imam Ali Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
- to Ka'b ibn Ju'ayl Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
- to Usama ibn Zayd Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
- to ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
Assembled from 5 entries and 7 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.