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
Counted from the narrations and chains this database holds — not a record of everything he transmitted.
Narrated to 3
named by a book
- Al-Nahiki Al-Fihrist
- Ali ibn Isma'il Al-Fihrist
- Safwan ibn Yahya Al-Fihrist
Narrated from the Imams
- Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
Named with him, but not in the entry we hold
These books tie them to him, but the entries we hold do not name them.
- to Muhammad ibn Abi Hamza al-Thamali Al-Fihrist
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 أبي الحسن Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
- to صفوان Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
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.