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.

Tarājim — his notice in each book

Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ardabīlī (d. 1101) p. 221 thiqa — trustworthy
المختار بن زياد العبيدي بصري من أصحاب أبي جعفر الثاني عليه السلام ثقة (صه.

Basri. One of the companions of Abu Ja'far the Second (al-Jawad). Trustworthy.

Listed under al-Jawād (ʿa)

Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth

Abū al-Qāsim al-Khoei (d. 1413) p. 109

Vol. 19 Entry no. 12187

Edition: 5th edition, 1413 AH / 1992 CE; editor and publisher not stated in the source

المختار بن زياد: روى عن حماد بن عيسى، وروى عنه الحسين بن سعيد. التهذيب: الجزء 4، باب من الزيادات في الزكاة، الحديث 267، والاستبصار: الجزء 2، باب الجنسين إذا اجتمعا فنقص كل واحد منهما عن حد كمال ما يجب فيه الزكاة، الحديث 119. وروى عن محمد بن سليمان، وروى عنه أحمد بن الحسن. الكافي: الجزء 1، كتاب الحجة 4، باب مواليد الأئمة عليهم السلام 93، ذيل حديث 1. أقول: يحتمل اتحاده مع من بعده.

Also named

  • المختار بن زياد
  • المختار بن زياد العبيدي

Attributed, not quoted

Attributed to these books, with no passage of them quoted here, and so not counted among the positions above.

Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth disputed the quoted passage does not say it
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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.