Narrator

سلمة

Salamah Abu al-Mustahil

Salamah Abu al-Mustahil 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, 3 entries

In this collection

12 narrations 33% of them in Kāmil al-Ziyārāt 1 man stands 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. 218

Entry no. 2917

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

سلمة، أبو المستهل الكوفي.

Listed under al-Ṣādiq (ʿa)

Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ardabīlī (d. 1101) p. 370
سلمة أبو المستهل الكوفي [ق]

Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth

Abū al-Qāsim al-Khoei (d. 1413) p. 208

Vol. 9 Entry no. 5353

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

سلمة أبو المستهل: الكوفي، من أصحاب الصادق عليه السلام، رجال الشيخ (155).

Also named

  • سلمة
  • سلمة أبو المستهل
  • سلمة أبو المستهل الكوفي
The same names, transliterated
  • Salamah Abu al-Mustahil al-Kufi
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Assembled from 3 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.