Narrator

بشر بن جعفر الكوفي

Bishr ibn Ja'far al-Kufi

Bishr ibn Ja'far al-Kufi kept company with al-Ṣādiq (ʿa).

مهمل · Muhmal — mentioned, no judgement passed

When he lived

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

Written about in 2 books, 3 entries

In this collection

1 narration 100% of them in Al-Kāfi 3 men stand next to him in a chain →

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

Tarājim — his notice in each book

Rijāl al-Ṭūsī

Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (d. 460) p. 167

Entry no. 1956

Edition: ed. Jawād al-Qayyūmī al-Iṣfahānī, 1st edition, Ramaḍān 1415 AH

بشر بن جعفر الكوفي.

Listed under al-Ṣādiq (ʿa)

Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth

Abū al-Qāsim al-Khoei (d. 1413) p. 220

Vol. 4 Entry no. 1738

Edition: 5th edition, 1413 AH / 1992 CE; editor and publisher not stated in the source

The first of 2 entries on him in this book under بشر بن جعفر. It stands on the same page as another of them.

بشر بن جعفر: روى عن المفضل بن عمرو، وروى عنه أبو إسماعيل السراج. الكافي: الجزء 1، كتاب الحجة 4، باب ما عند الأئمة من آيات الأنبياء عليهم السلام 37، الحديث 5. أقول: هو بشر بن جعفر الكوفي الآتي.

Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth

Abū al-Qāsim al-Khoei (d. 1413) p. 220

Vol. 4 Entry no. 1740

The second of 2 entries on him in this book under بشر بن جعفر. It stands on the same page as another of them.

بشر بن جعفر: الكوفي: من أصحاب الصادق عليه السلام، رجال الشيخ (7).

Also named

  • بشر بن جعفر
  • بشر بن جعفر الجعفي
  • بشر بن جعفر الكوفي
The same names, transliterated
  • Bishr ibn Ja'far al-Ja'fawi
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Assembled from 3 entries and 1 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.