Narrator

المختار بن زياد العبيدي

al-Mukhtar ibn Ziyad al-'Ubaydi

al-Mukhtar ibn Ziyad al-'Ubaydi kept company with al-Jawād (ʿa) and was of Basra. Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt holds him reliable.

on later scholars only, not the early rijāl

When he lived

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

From Basra Written about in 2 books, 2 entries

In this collection

1 narration 100% of them in Al-Kāfi

Counted from the narrations and chains this database holds — not a record of everything he transmitted.

Jarḥ wa taʿdīl

Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 221

What the books state about him

City or tribe
Basra — Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

Also named

  • المختار بن زياد
  • المختار بن زياد العبيدي

2 entries across 2 books. Pages follow the editions this database holds.

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Assembled from 2 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.