أحمد بن أبي خلف
Ahmad ibn Abi Khalaf
Ahmad ibn Abi Khalaf kept company with al-Jawād (ʿa).
مهمل · Muhmal — mentioned, no judgement passed
When he lived
The Prophet, then the twelve Imams in order in gold: al-Jawād (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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5. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Muhammad ibn Ahmad from Ali ibn al-Rayyan from Ahmad ibn abu Khalaf Mawla’ of abu al-Hassan (a.s.), whom he (the Imam) had bought along with his parents and brother then set them free but Ahmad made a contract with him (the Imam) and became his agent. He has said the following
“Women of abu al-Hassan (a.s.), when burning incense first took the date-stone of Sayhaniy (a certain kind of date of…
Assembled from 2 entries and 3 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.