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.

Narrates from

No book names anyone he narrates from.

3 men stand next to him in a chain →

Narrated to

No book names anyone who takes from him.

4 men stand next to him in a chain →

Narrated from the Imams

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.

  • from Abu al-Hasan (Musa al-Kadhim) Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
  • from محمّد بن أبي حمزة Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
  • from Ali ibn al-Hukm side by side in 2 chains
  • to Safwan Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
  • to ابن رباط Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
  • to al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Suma'a Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
  • to عليّ بن الحكم Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
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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.