Narrator

صباح بن يحيى أبو محمد المزني كوفي

Sabah bin Yahya al-Muzani

Sabah bin Yahya al-Muzani kept company with al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and was of Kufan. The books are divided about him: Rijāl al-Najāshī holds him reliable, while Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ weakens him.

When he lived

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

In this collection

15 narrations 27% of them in Al-Amālī 15 men stand next to him in a chain →

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

Jarḥ wa taʿdīl

Rijāl al-Najāshī ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 200
Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ ضعيف ḍaʿīf — weak

A grade is the judgement of the scholar who wrote it. Where the books divide, the chain turns on which of them you follow.

What the books state about him

Ṭabaqa
أصحاب أبي عبد الله جعفر بن محمد الصادق عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
City or tribe
Kufan — Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ

Also named

  • الصباح بن يحيى
  • صباح المزني
  • صباح بن يحيى
  • صباح بن يحيى أبو محمد المزني كوفي
  • صباح بن يحيى المزني
  • أبو محمد
all 8 names →

7 entries across 6 books. Pages follow the editions this database holds.

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Assembled from 7 entries and 2 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.