Narrator

عبد الاعلى بن أعين العجلي

Abd al-A'la ibn A'yan

Abd al-A'la ibn A'yan kept company with al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and was of Kufa. Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth holds him reliable.

on an early rijālī, reached through a later compiler

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

22 narrations 50% of them in Al-Kāfi 11 men stand next to him in a chain →

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

Narrates from

No book names anyone he narrates from.

Narrated to

No book names anyone who takes from him.

11 men stand next to him in a chain →

Narrated from the Imams

Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
The Prophet Muḥammad Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth

In the same isnād

Each stands next to his name in an isnād — one took straight from the other — and no book calls them teacher or pupil. Each row says where that comes from: a book's chain index, or the chains this database holds.

to ابن مسكان Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to ابن مسکان Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Al-Husayn ibn Abi al-'Ala al-Khaffaf Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīthside by side in 1 chain
to Tha'laba ibn Maymun Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīthside by side in 3 chains
to Hammad ibn Uthman al-Nabb Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīthside by side in 1 chain
to سيف Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Sayf ibn 'Umāra al-Nakha'ī Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīthside by side in 3 chains
to Ali bin Ri'ab Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīthside by side in 1 chain
to Malik ibn 'Atiyya Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīthside by side in 1 chain
to محمد بن سنان Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Yunus ibn Ya'qub ibn Qays Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīthside by side in 2 chains

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Assembled from 3 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.