Narrator

جعفر بن المثني الخطيب

Ja'far ibn al-Muthanna

Ja'far ibn al-Muthanna kept company with al-Riḍā (ʿa).

مهمل · Muhmal — mentioned, no judgement passed

When he lived

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

In this collection

2 narrations 100% of them in Al-Kāfi 8 men stand next to him in a chain →

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

What the books state about him

Ṭabaqa
أصحاب أبي الحسن الثاني علي بن موسى الرضا عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī

Also named

  • جعفر بن المثنى
  • جعفر بن المثنى الخطيب
  • جعفر بن المثنى الخطيب مولى لثقيف كوفي واقفي
  • جعفر بن المثني الخطيب
  • ابن المثنى

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

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