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)
In this collection
Counted from the narrations and chains this database holds — not a record of everything he transmitted.
Every narration whose chain this database resolves to him — the figure his seal draws. Resolved name by name, so a namesake of his is not among them.
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6. Abu Ali al-Ash‘ari has narrated from Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Jabbar from Safwan ibn Yahya from Ja‘far ibn Muhammad ibn al-’Ash‘ath who said to me following. “Do you know the reason that we came in this matter (became Shi‘a) and recognized it even though there was no mention of it among us and we had no knowledge of what other people (Shi‘a) had?” The narrator has said that
I asked him, “What then is the reason for it?” He said, “Abu Ja‘far, abu Dawaniq once said to abu Muhammad ibn…
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.