Narrator

بكر بن كرب

Bakr ibn Karb

Bakr ibn Karb kept company with al-Bāqir (ʿa) and al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and was of Kufa.

مهمل · Muhmal — mentioned, no judgement passed

When he lived

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

From Kufa Written about in 3 books, 4 entries

In this collection

2 narrations 100% of them in Al-Kāfi 2 men stand next to him in a chain →

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

Tarājim — his notice in each book

Rijāl al-Ṭūsī

Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (d. 460) p. 126

Entry no. 1290

Edition: ed. Jawād al-Qayyūmī al-Iṣfahānī, 1st edition, Ramaḍān 1415 AH

The first of 2 entries on him in this book under بكر بن كرب.

His other headings there: بكر بن كرب الصيرفي

بكر بن كرب.

Listed under al-Bāqir (ʿa)

Rijāl al-Ṭūsī

Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (d. 460) p. 169

Entry no. 1978

The second of 2 entries on him in this book under بكر بن كرب الصيرفي.

His other headings there: بكر بن كرب

بكر بن كرب الصيرفي، كوفي، أسند عنه.

Listed under al-Ṣādiq (ʿa)

Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ardabīlī (d. 1101) p. 127
بكر بن كرب [قر. ق] الصير في أسند عنه [ق]

Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth

Abū al-Qāsim al-Khoei (d. 1413) p. 255

Vol. 4 Entry no. 1867

Edition: 5th edition, 1413 AH / 1992 CE; editor and publisher not stated in the source

بكر بن كرب: من أصحاب الباقر عليه السلام، رجال الشيخ (14)، وذكره في أصحاب الصادق عليه السلام (29) قائلا: بكر بن كرب الصيرفي كوفي، أسند عنه. روى عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلام، وروى عنه حماد، الكافي: الجزء 3، كتاب الطهارة 1، باب صفة الغسل والوضوء قبله وبعده 29، الحديث 10، والتهذيب: الجزء 1، باب حكم الجنابة وصفة الطهارة منها، الحديث 366. وروى بكر بن كرب الصيرفي، عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلام، وروى عنه أحمد بن أبي بشر. الكافي: الجزء 1، كتاب الحجة 4، باب فيه ذكر الصحيفة والجفر 40، الحديث 6.

Also named

  • بكر بن كرب
  • بكر بن كرب الصيرفي
The same names, transliterated
  • Bakr ibn Karb
  • Bakr ibn Karb al-Sayrafi

Attributed, not quoted

Attributed to these books, with no passage of them quoted here, and so not counted among the positions above.

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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.