Narrator

جعفر بن محمد بن الأشعث الكوفي

Ja'far ibn Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath

Ja'far ibn Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath kept company with al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and was of al-Kufa.

مهمل · Muhmal — mentioned, no judgement passed

When he lived

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

From al-Kufa Written about in 2 books, 2 entries

In this collection

1 narration 100% of them in Al-Kāfi 3 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 عبد الله جعفر بن محمد الصادق عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
City or tribe
al-Kufa — Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth

Also named

  • جعفر بن محمد بن الأشعث
  • جعفر بن محمد بن الأشعث الكوفي

2 entries across 2 books. Pages follow the editions this database holds.

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Assembled from 2 entries and 1 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.