علي بن داود الكوفي
Ali ibn Dawud al-Kufi
Ali ibn Dawud al-Kufi kept company with al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and was of الكوفة.
مهمل · Muhmal — mentioned, no judgement passed
When he lived
The Prophet, then the twelve Imams in order in gold: al-Ṣādiq (ʿa)
In this collection
Counted from the narrations and chains this database holds — not a record of everything he transmitted.
Every narration whose chain this database resolves to him — the figure his seal draws. Resolved name by name, so a namesake of his is not among them.
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(6) Salama bin Muhammad narrated from Ali bin Dawood from Ahmad bin al-Hasan from Imran bin al-Hajjaj from Abdurrahman bin Abu Najran from Muhammad bin Abu Omayr from Muhammad bin Iss’haq from Ossayd bin Tha’laba that Umm Hani’ had asked Abu Ja’far Muhammad bin Ali al-Baqir (as): “What is the meaning of the Qur’anic verse, “But nay! I swear by the stars that recede?” He said
“O Umm Hani’, it is an imam receding until his news will be ignored by people in the year two hundred and sixty and then…
Assembled from 3 entries and 1 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.