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الحسين بن أبي العلاء الخفاف

Al-Husayn ibn Abi al-'Ala al-Khaffaf

Al-Husayn ibn Abi al-'Ala al-Khaffaf kept company with al-Bāqir (ʿa) and al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and was of Banū ʿĀmir (client of).

مهمل · Muhmal — mentioned, no judgement passed

When he lived

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

From Banū ʿĀmir (client of) Written about in 7 books, 11 entries

In this collection

85 narrations 48% of them in Al-Kāfi 46 men stand next to him in a chain →

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

Every narration whose chain this database resolves to him — the figure his seal draws. Resolved name by name, so a namesake of his is not among them.

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Assembled from 11 entries and 8 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.