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.

Narrates from

No book names anyone he narrates from.

1 man stands next to him in a chain →

Narrated to

No book names anyone who takes from him.

4 men stand next to him in a chain →

Narrated from the Imams

In the same isnād

Each stands next to his name in an isnād — one took straight from the other — and no book calls them teacher or pupil. Each row says where that comes from: a book's chain index, or the chains 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.