Al-Aʿlam al-Azdī
Al-Aʿlam al-Azdī kept company with ʿAlī and was of Azdi (Tribe). Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth holds him reliable.
on later scholars only, not the early rijāl
When he lived
The Prophet, then the twelve Imams in order in gold: ʿAlī (ʿa)
In this collection
Counted from the narrations and chains this database holds — not a record of everything he transmitted.
Vol. 4 Entry no. 1521
Edition: 5th edition, 1413 AH / 1992 CE; editor and publisher not stated in the source
الأعلم الأزدي: ذكره البرقي، في أولياء أمير المؤمنين عليه السلام. وكذلك العلامة، في أواخر الفصل (28) في الكنى، من القسم الأول. وقال ابن داود، في القسم الأول (196): الأعلم الأزدي، من أصحاب علي عليه السلام ثقة.
Assembled from 1 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.