Narrator

إسماعيل بن أبي سمال

Ismail bin Abi Samal

Ismail bin Abi Samal kept company with al-Kāẓim (ʿa).

مهمل · Muhmal — mentioned, no judgement passed

When he lived

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

In this collection

2 narrations 50% of them in Al-Kāfi 7 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

Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

p. 91
إسماعيل بن أبي سمال [كش. جش] و أكثر نسخ [ظم] وفي [صه] إسماعيل بن سماك بالكاف وقيل باللام وقيل بن أبي سماك وهو أخو إبراهيم كان واقفيا وقال النجاشي انه ثقة واقفي فلا اعتمد ح على روايته قلت قاله في أخيه إبراهيم وليست عبارته صريحة في توثيق إسماعيل

Also named

  • إسماعيل
  • إسماعيل ابني أبي سمال
  • إسماعيل بن أبي الصباح
  • إسماعيل بن أبي سمال
  • إسماعيل بن الصباح
  • إسماعيل بن سماك
  • إسماعيل،عن أبي الصباح
  • جارود
The same names, transliterated
  • Isma'il
  • Isma'il ibn Abi Sammal
  • Ismail bin Abi Samal
  • Ismail bin Samak
  • Ismail ibn Abi al-Sabah
  • Ismail ibn Abi al-Samal
  • Ismail ibn al-Sabah
  • Ismail, from Abi al-Sabah
  • Jarud

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 1 entries and 3 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.