Narrator

بسطام بن سابور الزيات

Bistam ibn Sabur al-Zayyat

Bistam ibn Sabur al-Zayyat kept company with al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and was of Wasit. Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt and Rijāl al-Najāshī hold him reliable.

When he lived

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

In this collection

2 narrations 50% of them in Al-Kāfi 5 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. 109
Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt ثقة thiqa — trustworthy p. 119

What the books state about him

Ṭabaqa
أصحاب أبي عبد الله جعفر بن محمد الصادق عليهما السلام — Rijāl al-Ṭūsī
City or tribe
Wasit — Al-Fihrist

Also named

  • بسطام الزيات
  • بسطام بن الزيات
  • بسطام بن سابور
  • بسطام بن سابور الزيات
  • بسطام بن سابور الزيات أبو الحسين الواسطي مولى
  • بسطام بن سابور له كتاب
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Assembled from 10 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.