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أحمد بن أشيم

Ahmad ibn Ashim

Ahmad ibn Ashim kept company with al-Riḍā (ʿa). Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth weakens him.

on an early rijālī, reached through a later compiler

When he lived

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

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2 narrations 50% of them in Maʿānī al-ʾAkhbār 4 men stand next to him in a chain →

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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  1. 34. We were told by Muhammed bin Musa bin Mutawakkil, that he said: We were told by Abdullah bin Ja’far al-Himyari, from Ahmad bin Muhammed bin Isa, from Hasan bin Mahbub, from Dawud bin Kathir al-Riqqi, that he said

    I said to Abu Abdillah, peace be upon him: Which of the two of them was older, Isma’eel or Ishaq? And which of the two…

    Maʿānī al-ʾAkhbār #758 Volume 1 Read the narration
  2. 28-84 (The author of the book narrated) my father - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Sa’d ibn Abdullah quoted on the authority of Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Isa, on the authority of Al-Hassan ibn Ali ibn Fadhdhal, on the authority of Ahmad ibn Ashyam that he asked

    Al-Ridha (s), “May I be your ransom! Why do the Arabs put such names as Dog, Tiger, Cheetah and the like on their…

    ʿUyūn akhbār al-Riḍā #292 Volume 1 Read the narration
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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.