Narrator

بكير بن أعين

Bakir ibn A'yan

Bakir ibn A'yan kept company with al-Bāqir (ʿa) and al-Ṣādiq (ʿa).

مهمل · Muhmal — mentioned, no judgement passed

When he lived

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

In this collection

37 narrations 46% of them in Al-Kāfi 32 men stand next to him in a chain →

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

What the books state about him

Ṭabaqa
أصحاب أبي جعفر محمد بن علي بن الحسين عليهم السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
أصحاب أبي عبد الله جعفر بن محمد الصادق عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
City or tribe
Banu Shayban (Mawla of Bani Shayban) — Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth

Also named

  • بكير بن أعين
  • بكير بن أعين الشيباني الكوفي
  • بكير بن أعين بن سنسن الشيباني الكوفي
  • ابن بكير
  • ابن سنسن
  • بكير

5 entries across 4 books. Pages follow the editions this database holds.

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Assembled from 5 entries and 6 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.