Narrator

سليم الفراء

Salim al-Farra

Salim al-Farra kept company with al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and was of Kufa. 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)

From Kufa Written about in 4 books, 7 entries

In this collection

11 narrations 91% of them in Al-Kāfi 17 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 1

named by a book

Abu al-Hasan (al-Kadhim) Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

Narrated to 3

named by a book

Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Isa (via father) Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt
al-Husayn ibn Said (via al-Qasim ibn Muhammad) Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt
Muhammad ibn Abi Umayr Ziyad ibn Isa Rijāl al-Najāshī

Narrated from the Imams

Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt · Rijāl al-Najāshī · Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl
Mūsā al-Kāẓim Rijāl al-Najāshī · Tanqīḥ al-Maqāl

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.

from Muhammad ibn Muslim ibn Rabbah Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt
to Muhammad ibn Abi Umayr Ziyad ibn Isa Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt
to Sayf ibn 'Umāra al-Nakha'ī Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt
to علي بن الحكم Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

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 Amir al-Mu'mininin (Ali) Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
from Ibrahim ibn Hashim Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīthside by side in 1 chain
from أبي جعفر Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
from الحسن بن مسلم Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
from Haddad ibn Hakim Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīthside by side in 1 chain
from حريز Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
from حسين بن مسلم Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
from داود Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
from Ali ibn al-Hukm side by side in 3 chains
to Ibrahim ibn Hashim Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīthside by side in 1 chain
to أحمد بن محمد Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Isa al-Ash'ari Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth
to al-Qasim ibn Muhammad al-Jawhari Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth

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Assembled from 7 entries and 15 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.