Narrator

جعفر بن علي

Ja'far bin 'Ali bin Abi Talib

Ja'far bin 'Ali bin Abi Talib kept company with al-Ḥusayn.

مهمل · Muhmal — mentioned, no judgement passed

When he lived

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

Written about in 3 books, 3 entries

In this collection

3 narrations 33% of them in Al-Kāfi

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. 97

Entry no. 965

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

جعفر بن علي، أخوه عليه السلام، قتل معه، امه أم البنين.

Listed under al-Ḥusayn (ʿa)

Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ardabīlī (d. 1101) p. 153
جعفر بن علي بن أبي طالب عليه السلام [د] وفي [سين] جعفر بن علي اخوه قتل معه أمه أم البنين

Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth

Abū al-Qāsim al-Khoei (d. 1413) p. 49

Vol. 5 Entry no. 2202

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

جعفر بن علي (عليه السلام): أخو (الحسين عليه السلام) قتل معه، أمه أم البنين، من أصحاب الحسين (عليه السلام)، رجال الشيخ (2). وقد وقع التسليم عليه في زيارتي الرجبية والناحية، ولعن قاتله هاني بن ثبيت الحضرمي، في زيارة الناحية.

Also named

  • الصادق
  • جعفر بن أمير المؤمنين
  • جعفر بن علي
  • جعفر بن علي بن أبي طالب
  • جعفر بن علي بن أبي طالب عليه السلام
The same names, transliterated
  • Ja'far bin 'Ali bin Abi Talib
  • Ja'far bin Amir al-Mu'minin
  • al-Sadiq

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 3 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.