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.

Narrates from

No book names anyone he narrates from.

1 man stands next to him in a chain →

Narrated to 3

named by a book

Narrated from the Imams

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.

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
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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.