Narrator

جعفر بن قعنب بن أعين الكوفي

Ja'far ibn Qa'nb ibn A'yan al-Kufi

Ja'far ibn Qa'nb ibn A'yan al-Kufi kept company with 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-Ṣādiq (ʿa)

From Kufa Written about in 3 books, 4 entries

In this collection

0 narrations 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. 174

Entry no. 2071

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

The first of 2 entries on him in this book under جعفر بن قعنب بن أعين الكوفي.

His other headings there: جعفر بن قعنب بن أعين

جعفر بن قعنب بن أعين الكوفي.

Listed under al-Ṣādiq (ʿa)

Rijāl al-Ṭūsī

Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (d. 460) p. 178

Entry no. 2136

The second of 2 entries on him in this book under جعفر بن قعنب بن أعين.

His other headings there: جعفر بن قعنب بن أعين الكوفي

جعفر بن قعنب بن أعين.

Listed under al-Ṣādiq (ʿa)

Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ardabīlī (d. 1101) p. 154
جعفر بن قعنب بن أعين [ق] ثم كرر فزاد الكوفي

Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth

Abū al-Qāsim al-Khoei (d. 1413) p. 60

Vol. 5 Entry no. 2231

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

جعفر بن قعنب بن أعين الكوفي: من أصحاب الصادق (عليه السلام)، رجال الشيخ (9)، وذكره مجردا عن توصيفه بالكوفي (74). وكذا ذكره البرقي أيضا في أصحاب الصادق (عليه السلام).

Also named

  • جعفر بن قعنب
  • جعفر بن قعنب بن أعين
  • جعفر بن قعنب بن أعين (ق)
  • جعفر بن قعنب بن أعين الكوفي
  • جعفر بن قعيب بن أعين
The same names, transliterated
  • Ja'far ibn Qa'nab
  • Ja'far ibn Qa'nab ibn A'yan al-Kufi
  • Ja'far ibn Qa'nb ibn A'yan
  • Ja'far ibn Qa'yub ibn A'yan
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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.