Narrator

أيوب بن أعين الكوفي

Ayyub ibn A'yun

Ayyub ibn A'yun kept company with al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and al-Kāẓim (ʿa) and was of Kufa; Mawla of Banu Tarif (or Banu Riah). Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth holds him reliable.

on an early rijālī, reached through a later compiler

When he lived

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

From Kufa; Mawla of Banu Tarif (or Banu Riah) Written about in 3 books, 4 entries

In this collection

4 narrations 50% of them in Al-Kāfi 5 men stand next to him in a chain →

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

Jarḥ wa taʿdīl

Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 1411 quoting Rijāl al-Ṭūsī

What the books state about him

Ṭabaqa
أصحاب أبي عبد الله جعفر بن محمد الصادق عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
أصحاب أبي الحسن موسى بن جعفر الكاظم عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
City or tribe
Kufa; Mawla of Banu Tarif (or Banu Riah) — Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth

Also named

  • أيوب بن أعين
  • أيوب بن أعين الكوفي
  • أيوب بن أعين الكوفي مولى لبني طريف ويقال بنى رياح

4 entries across 3 books. Pages follow the editions this database holds.

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Assembled from 4 entries and 2 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.