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.

Tarājim — his notice in each book

Rijāl al-Ṭūsī

Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (d. 460) p. 174

Entry no. 2066

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

جعفر بن محمد بن الأشعث الكوفي.

Listed under al-Ṣādiq (ʿa)

Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth

Abū al-Qāsim al-Khoei (d. 1413) p. 73

Vol. 5 Entry no. 2258

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

جعفر بن محمد بن الأشعث: الكوفي، من أصحاب الصادق (عليه السلام)، رجال الشيخ (4). كان عاميا، فاستبصر، كما يظهر من رواية الكليني بسنده عن صفوان بن يحيى، عنه، عن أبيه محمد بن الأشعث، عن فلان بن مهاجر، عن محمد بن جعفر (عليهما السلام). الكافي: الجزء 1، كتاب الحجة 4، باب مولد أبي عبد الله (عليه السلام) 119، الحديث 6.

Also named

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

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 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.