List of the Companions of Imam al-Rida (a)
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The list of Companions of Imam al-Rida (a) contains people mentioned in Shia sources as Imam al-Rida's (a) deputy or students or transmitters of his hadiths.
Number
In his Rijal, al-Shaykh al-Tusi has mentioned 320 people under "Ashab Abi l-Hasan al-Thani 'Ali b. Musa al-Rida".[1] Of more recent scholars, 'Atarudi has mentioned 312 people in his Musnad al-Imam al-Rida (a),[2] and Qurashi has mentioned 367 people in his Hayat al-Imam 'Ali b. Musa al-Rida.[3] Muhammad Mahdi Najaf, the author of al-Jami' lil-ruwat wa ashab al-Imam al-Rida (a), has mentioned 831 people from difference Shia sources as transmitters of hadiths from, and companions of, Imam al-Rida (a).[4]
Companions and Hadith Transmitters in Rijal al-Tusi
- Muḥammad b. Faraj Rukhajī (Thiqa).[5]
- Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd.
- Aḥmad b. Muḥammad Abī Naṣr Buzantī (Thiqa).
- Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā Ashʿarī Qummī (Thiqa) lahu kutub.
- Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad b. Isḥāq b. Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib (a).
- Aḥmad b. ʿĀmir b. Sulaymān Ṭāʾī.
- Aḥmad b. Ashīm.
- Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Ḥanbal b. Hilāl Shaybānī.
- Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm Ḥanẓalī (b. Rāḥawayh).
- Idrīs b. ʿĪsā Ashʿarī Qummī (Thiqa).
- Ibrāhīm b. Abī Maḥmūd Khurāsānī (Thiqa).
- Aḥmad b. Yūsuf Mawlā Banī Taym Allāh Kūfī (Thiqa).
- Ismāʿīl b. Saʿd Aḥwaṣ Ashʿarī Qummī (Thiqa).
- Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbbād Qaṣrī.
- Ismāʿīl b. Mihrān.
- Ismāʿīl b. Hammām.
- Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad Hamdanī.
- Ibrāhīm b. Ṣāliḥ.
- Ibrāhīm b. Abī al-Bilād Kūfī (Thiqa).
- Aḥmad b. ʿUmar Ḥalāl (Thiqa).
- Ayūb b. Nūḥ b. Durāj Kūfī (Thiqa).
- Aflaḥ b. Yazīd.
- Idrīs b. Yaqṭīn.
- Ibrāhīm b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Jaʿfar b. Abī Ṭālib, Jaʿfarī.
- Ibrāhīm b. Mūsā.
- Isḥāq b. Mūsā b. Jaʿfar (a).
- Isḥāq b. Muḥammad Ḥaḍīnī.
- Ibrāhīm b. Hāshim ʿAbbāsī.
- Ibrāhīm b. Shuʿayb ʿAqrqūfī.
- Ibrāhīm b. Isrāʾīl.
- Ibrāhīm b. Hāshim Qummī, student of Yūnus b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.
- Aḍram b. Maṭar.
- Aḥmad b. Fayḍ.
- Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad, Mawlā Khurāsānī.
- Aḥmad b. Muḥammad, known as Zaydī.
- Aflaḥ b. Yazīd, (unknown).
- Ismāʿīl b. Qutayba, (unknown).
- Ibrāhīm b. Salām Nīshābūrī, (agent).
- Bakr b. Muḥammad Azdī, author of books, from the companions of Abī ʿAbd Allāh (a).
- Bakr b. Ṣāliḥ Ḍabī Rāzī.
- Bāʾis, Mawlā Ḥamza b. Yasʿīsh Ashʿarī (Thiqa).
- Thalj b. Abī Thalj Yaʿqūbī.
- Jaʿfar b. Mathnī Khaṭīb.
- Jaʿfar b. ʿĪsā b. ʿUbayd.
- Jaʿfar b. Bashīr Bajlī.
- Jaʿfar b. Ismāʿīl Ḥaḍramī.
- Ḥammād b. ʿUthmān Nāb from the companions of Abī ʿAbd Allāh (a).
- Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Faḍāl Kūfī (Thiqa).
- Ḥasan b. ʿAlī Rubaʿī.
- Ḥasan b. Saʿīd b. Ḥammād.
- Ḥasan b. ʿAlī Khazzāz.
- Ḥasan Tiflīsī, Abā Muḥammad.
- Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Yaqṭīn (Thiqa).
- Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. Abī Ṭalḥa.
- Ḥasan b. Jahm Rāzī.
- Ḥasan b. Yūnus.
- Ḥasan b. Ibrāhīm Kūfī.
- Ḥasan b. Maḥbūb Sarād Kūfī (Thiqa).
- Ḥasan b. Shuʿayb Madāīnī.
- Ḥasan b. Saʿīd Kūfī.
- Ḥasan b. ʿUmar b. Yazīd.
- Ḥasan Rawandī Dīnawarī.
- Ḥasan b. Asbāṭ Kundī.
- Ḥusayn b. Saʿīd b. Ḥammād, Mawlā ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn (a) (Thiqa).
- Ḥasan b. Ziyād (Thiqa).
- Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Yaqṭīn (Thiqa).
- Ḥusayn b. Mihrān.
- Ḥusayn b. ʿUmar b. Yazīd (Thiqa).
- Ḥusayn b. Khālid Ṣīrfī.
- Ḥusayn b. Bashār Madāīnī (Thiqa), Ṣaḥīḥ, narrator from Abī al-Ḥasan Mūsā (a).
- Ḥusayn b. Mūsā.
- Ḥusayn b. Yazīd Nakhʿī, nicknamed Nawfilī.
- Ḥusayn Mawlā Riʾāb.
- Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. Abī Ṭalḥa.
- Ḥusayn b. Jahm Rāzī.
- Ḥasan b. Rāshid.
- Ḥamdān b. Salmān Nīshābūrī.
- Ḥusayn Rawandī Dīnawarī.
- Ḥusayn b. Shuʿayb Madāīnī.
- Ḥasan b. Qāsim.
- Ḥusayn b. Ibrāhīm b. Mūsā b. Jaʿfar (a).
- Ḥusayn b. Ṣāliḥ Khaṭʿamī.
- Ḥamza b. Bazīʿ.
- Ḥusayn b. Ziyād.
- Ḥasan b. ʿAbbād.
- Ḥasan b. Sahl, known as Ḥasan Baẓī al-Qalamīn.
- Ḥasan b. Ḥusayn ʿAlawī.
- Ḥamdān b. Ibrāhīm Aḥwazī Kūfī.
- Ḥasan b. Ibrāhīm Kūfī.
- Ḥasan b. ʿAdīs.
- Ḥasan b. Bashīr, (unknown).
- Ḥasan b. Asad Baṣrī.
- Khalaf b. Salama Baṣrī.
- Dāwūd b. Qāsim Jaʿfarī, Abū Hāshim.
- Dāwūd b. Sulaymān b. Yūsuf.
- Dāwūd b. Nuʿmān.
- Dāwūd b. ʿAlī ʿAbdī.
- Dāwūd b. ʿAlī Yaʿqūbī.
- Dābil b. ʿAlī Khuzāʿī.
- Rayyān b. Ṣalt Baġdādī (Thiqa) originaly from Khurasan.
- Zakarīyā b. ʿAbd al-Ṣamad Qummī (Thiqa), from the companions of Abī al-Ḥasan Mūsā (a).
- Zakarīyā b. Idrīs b. ʿAbd Allāh Ashʿarī Qummī.
- Zakarīyā Mūʾmin.
- Zakarīyā b. Ādam Qummī.
- Sulaymān b. Jaʿfar Jaʿfarī (Thiqa).
- Sahl b. Yasʿ b. ʿAbd Allāh Ashʿarī Qummī.
- Saʿīd b. Ukht Ṣafwān b. Yaḥyā, brother of Fāris, (exaggerator).
- Saʿd b. Saʿd Aḥwaṣ b. Saʿd b. Mālik, Ashʿarī Qummī (Thiqa).
- Sulaimān b. Rashīd.
- Sulaimān b. Dāwūd Khafāf.
- Sulaimān Marwazī.
- Sindī b. Rabīʿ Kūfī.
- Saʿīd b. Saʿīd Qummī (Thiqa).
- Saʿd b. Ḥammād (unknown).
- Shuʿayb b. Ḥammād.
- Ṣāliḥ b. ʿAlī b. ʿAṭīyah Baġdādī.
- Ṣāliḥ b. ʿAbd Allāh Khaṭʿamī.
- Ṣāliḥ Khabbāz Kūfī.
- Ṣafwān b. Yaḥyā Bajlī Bayāʿ al-Sābirī Mawlā (Thiqa), agent of the Imām, Kūfī.
- Ṣadaqah Khurāsānī.
- Ṭāhir b. Ḥātim, (exaggerator), liar, brother of Fāris.
- ʿAbd Allāh b. Mūsā b. Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad (a), brother of the Imām (a).
- ʿAbd Allāh b. Junayd Bajlī Kūfī (Thiqa).
- ʿAlī b. Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad (Thiqa).
- ʿAbd Allāh b. Mughīrah Mawlā Banī Nūfal b. Ḥārith b. ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib Khazzāz Kūfī.
- ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Saʿīd.
- ʿAlī b. Suwayd Sāʾī (Thiqa).
- ʿAlī b. Bilāl.
- ʿUthmān b. ʿĪsā Kulābī Rawāsī Kūfī, Wāqifī.
- ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abī Najrān Tamīmī.
- ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. al-Muhtadī Ashʿarī Qummī.
- ʿAbd al-Jabbār b. Mubārak Nahawandī.
- ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, known as Ibn Kathīr Nahawandī.
- ʿAbd Allāh b. Ṣalt, Abāṭālib, Mawlā Banī Tīm Allāh b. Thaʿlabah (Thiqa).
- ʿAbd al-Salām b. Ṣāliḥ Harawī Abū al-Ṣalt, ʿĀmī. (Abāṣalt Harawī)
- ʿAlī b. Mahdī b. Ṣadaqah Raqī Abū al-Ḥasan.
- ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAlī.
- ʿAlī b. ʿAlī b. Razīn Khazāʿī, brother of Dābil b. ʿAlī the poet.
- ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad Ḥijāl (Thiqa).
- ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad Ḥusaynī ʿAbdī.
- ʿAbd Allāh b. Abān.
- ʿImrān b. Muḥammad b. ʿImrān b. ʿAbd Allāh Ashʿarī (Thiqa).
- ʿAlī b. Mahzīyār Aḥwazī (Thiqa), Ṣaḥīḥ.
- ʿAlī b. Asbāṭ b. Sālim Kundī, Kūfī.
- ʿAlī b. Ḥadīd b. Ḥakīm Kūfī.
- ʿAlī b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥasan, Mawlā ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn (a), Kūfī, maternal uncle of Ḥusayn b. Saʿīd (Thiqa).
- ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. Ashīm.
- ʿAlī b. Musayyib ʿArabī, Ahl al-Hamadan (Thiqa).
- ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn b. Yaḥyā.
- ʿAlī b. Faḍīl Wāsitī.
- ʿAlī b. Ḥakam b. Zubayr, Mawlā Nakhʿī Kūfī.
- ʿAlī b. Sayf b. ʿAmīrah ʿArabī, Kūfī Nakhʿī.
- ʿAbbās b. Muḥammad Warrāq Yūnānī.
- ʿAbbās b. Mūsā Nakhās, Kūfī (Thiqa).
- ʿAbbās b. Maʿrūf Qummī (Thiqa), Ṣaḥīḥ, Mawlā Jaʿfar b. ʿImrān b. ʿAbd Allāh Ashʿarī.
- ʿUbayd Naṣrī.
- ʿAbbād b. Yazīd.
- ʿUqbah b. Rustam.
- ʿĪsā b. ʿĪsā Kulābī, Kūfī, Wāqifī.
- ʿAbbās b. Hilāl Shāmī.
- ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Mahārān.
- ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Saʿīd.
- ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, known as Abū Qanbar Nahawandī.
- ʿAlī b. Yaḥyā nicknamed Abā al-Ḥasan.
- ʿAbd Allāh b. Abān.
- ʿAbbās Najāshī Kūfī.
- ʿAmmār b. Yazīd.
- ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Muslim.
- ʿAbd al-Salām b. Ṣāliḥ.
- ʿUmar b. Furāt Kāṭib Baġdādī, (exaggerator).
- ʿAbd Allāh b. Ibrāhīm.
- ʿAlī b. Nuʿmān.
- ʿAlī b. Ismāʿīl Miṯmī, Mutakallim.
- ʿUmar b. Zuhayr Jazrī.
- ʿAbbād b. Muḥammad b. Sulaymān Nūfalī.
- ʿUthmān b. Rashīd.
- ʿAlī b. ʿUthmān b. Razīn.
- ʿAbīs b. Ḥishām Nāshirī.
- ʿAlī b. Saʿīd Madāīnī.
- ʿAlī b. Abī Thawr Kūfī.
- ʿAlī b. Rabāṭ.
- ʿAlī b. Hilāl.
- ʿUbayd Allāh b. ʿAlī b. Sawwār.
- ʿAbd Allāh b. Ṭāwūs.
- ʿAbd Allāh, nicknamed Raʾs al-Madhārī.
- ʿĪsā b. ʿUthmān, (unknown).
- ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. Ashīm, (unknown).
- ʿAṭīyah b. Rustam, (unknown).
- ʿAlī b. Yūnus b. Bahman.
- Faḍālah b. Ayūb ʿArabī Azdī.
- Faḍl b. Sahl Dhū al-Riyāsatayn.
- Faḍl b. Sinān Nīshāpūrī, agent.
- Qāsim b. Asbāṭ, (unknown).
- Qāsim b. Yaḥyā b. al-Ḥasan.
- Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Mūsā b. Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib (a).
- Muḥammad b. Sulaimān, Dīlāmī Baṣrī, ḍaʿīf.
- Muḥammad b. Faḍl Azdī Kūfī (Thiqa).
- Muḥammad b. Khālid Barqī (Thiqa).
- Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Jaʿfar.
- Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl b. Bazīʿ (Thiqa), Ṣaḥīḥ, Kūfī.
- Muḥammad b. Sinān, ḍaʿīf.
- Muḥammad b. Khālid Balkhī Mawlā Abī al-Ḥasan (a).
- Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd ʿAṭṭār.
- ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd b. Sālim ʿAṭṭār.
- Muḥammad b. ʿAlī Qurashī.
- Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh Ṭahūrī.
- Muḥammad b. Baḥr brother of Mughlis.
- Muḥammad b. Aslam Jabalī Ṭabarī, originally Kūfī.
- Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar Muqnāʿī.
- Muḥammad b. Zayd, Ṭabarī, originally Kūfī.
- Muḥammad b. Jumhūr ʿAmmī, ʿArabī Baṣrī, (exaggerator).
- Muḥammad b. Qāsim Nūshajānī.
- Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad, uncle of the Imām (a).
- Muḥammad, Mawlā of Riḍā (a).
- Muḥammad b. ʿArfah.
- Muḥammad b. ʿAmmār b. Ashʿath.
- Muḥammad b. Isḥāq b. ʿAmmār Ṣīrfī Kūfī.
- Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh Ashʿarī.
- Muḥammad b. Sahl b. Yisʿaʿ Ashʿarī Qummī.
- Muḥammad b. Abī ʿUmayr, Abū Aḥmad, his father Ziyād Mawlā of Azd (Thiqa).
- Muḥammad b. Ǧadhāʿah Fārsī.
- Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar Khazzāz.
- Muḥammad b. Manṣūr b. Naṣr Khazāʿī.
- Muḥammad b. Manṣūr Ashʿarī.
- Muḥammad b. Samāʿah Kūfī.
- Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿĪsā Ashʿarī Qummī (Thiqa).
- Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh Madāʾīnī.
- Muḥammad b. Sahl Bajlī Azdī.
- Muḥammad b. Faḍīl Madāʾīnī.
- Muḥammad b. Faḍīl Azdī Ṣīrfī, (accused of exaggeration), has a book.
- Mūsā b. Qāsim b. Muʿāwīah b. Wahb ʿArabī Bajlī Kūfī (Thiqa).
- Marwān b. Yaḥyā.
- Muʿāwīah b. Yaḥyā.
- Muʿāwīah b. Saʿīd Kundī.
- Muqātil b. Muqātil b. Qiyāmā, Wāqifī, evil, probably his name was Khashīsh.
- Maʿn b. Khālid, has a book, (Thiqa).
- Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Qays b. Ghīlān, Mawlā Kūfī, has a book, (Thiqa).
- Muḥammad b. Faḍl b. ʿUmar.
- Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Jaʿfar.
- Maʿmar b. Khallād.
- Mūsā b. Ranjawīh.
- Muḥammad b. Yūnus b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.
- Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh Ṭāharī.
- Muḥammad b. Aslam Ṭūsī.
- Muḥammad b. ʿAmmār b. Ashʿath Nahdī.
- Muḥammad b. Ḥasan b. Abī Khalid, Qummī Ashʿarī.
- Marzbān b. ʿImrān, Ashʿarī Qummī.
- Muḥammad b. ʿUmar b. Yazīd.
- Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar Khazzāz.
- Muḥammad b. Qāsim b. Faḍīl.
- Muḥammad b. Manṣūr b. Naṣr Khazāʿī.
- Mūsā b. Yaqtīn.
- Muḥammad b. Sulaymān Kāṭib.
- Muqātil b. Muqātil.
- Muḥammad b. Ṣadaqah Baṣrī, (exaggerator).
- Muḥammad b. Isḥāq Shiʿr.
- Musāfir, nickname Abā Muslim.
- Mūsā b. Maʿmar.
- Muwaffaq b. Hārūn.
- Muḥammad b. ʿAmrū Kūnāsī.
- Mūsā b. Mihrān.
- Muḥammad b. Ḥamza b. Qāsim.
- Muḥammad b. Khuṣayb Aḥwazī.
- Muḥammad b. Shuʿayb.
- Muḥammad b. Sālim Qummī.
- Muḥammad b. Kalīb Ashʿarī.
- Muḥammad b. Mālik b. Abrad Nakhʿī.
- Muḥammad b. Muḥammad Abū al-Munẓir b. Muḥammad.
- Muḥammad b. ʿUrmah Qummī.
- Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā b. ʿUbayd Baghdādī.
- Mūsā b. Junayd Qummī.
- Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar ʿAtabī.
- Muḥammad b. Qāsim Būshanjī.
- Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh Ashʿarī.
- Muḥammad b. Fayḍ b. Mālik Madāʾīnī, Mawlā ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb.
- Muḥammad b. Ādam Madāʾīnī, known as Zarqān Madāʾīnī.
- Muḥsin b. Aḥmad Bajlī, Abū Aḥmad.
- Marwān b. Yaḥyā, (unknown).
- Muḥammad b. Manṣūr Ashʿathī, (unknown).
- Naṣr b. Mughlis.
- Walīd b. Abān Ḍabbī Rāzī.
- Hishām b. Ibrāhīm Aḥmar.
- Yūnus b. Yaʿqūb, (Thiqa), has a book, from the companions of Abī ʿAbd Allāh (a).
- Yūnus b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, from the companions of Abī al-Ḥasan Mūsā (a).
- Yaḥyā b. Mubārak.
- Yaḥyā b. ʿAmr.
- Yaḥyā b. Ibrāhīm b. Abī Balād.
- Yaḥyā b. Yaḥyā Tamīmī ʿĀmī.
- Yaḥyā b. Ḥabīb Zīyāt.
- Yaḥyā b. ʿImrān Hamdānī.
- Yaḥyā b. Yazīd, Abū Khalid Kūfī.
- Yaḥyā b. Sulaymān Kāṭib.
- Yaʿqūb b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Junayd.
- Yaʿqūb b. Yazīd Kāṭib.
- Yaʿqūb b. Yaqtīn, (Thiqa).
- Yazīd b. ʿUmar b. Bint ʿUthmān.
- Yāsir Mawlā Yisʿ Ashʿarī Qummī.
- Yaḥyā b. Aḥmad b. Qays Ghīlān.
- Yaʿqūb b. Saʿīd Kundī.
- Yaḥyā b. ʿAbbās Warrāq, (unknown).
- Abū Isḥāq Khurāsānī, from the companions of Abī ʿAbd Allāh (a).
- Abū Khalid Kūfī.
- Abū Zayd Makkī.
- Abū Muḥammad Qazwīnī.
- Abāṣalṭ Khurāsānī Harawī ʿĀmī narrated from Bakr b. Ṣāliḥ.
- Abū al-Ḥasan Khurāsānī.
- Abū ʿAlī Qaṭṭān.
- Abū Muḥammad Ẓurrīrī Dīnūrī.
- Abū al-Faḍl Khurāsānī.
- Abū Khalid Sijistānī.
- Abū Sajāḥ Anṣārī
- Abū Yaḥyā Mūṣilī.
- Abū al-ʿAbbās Ḥamīrī.
- Abū Ḥamzah Mawlāh.
- Abū Muḥammad Kūfī.
- Abū Ḥurayr Qummī.
- Abū Muḥammad Taflīsī, (unknown).
- Abū Saʿīd Khurāsānī, (unknown).
- Abū Zayd Makkī, (unknown).
Representatives
- Abd al-Raḥmān b. Ḥajjāj
- Ṣafwān b. Yaḥyā
- Ibrāhīm b. Salām Nishābūrī
- ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. al-Muhtadī
- ʿAlī b. Mahzīyār Ahwāzī
- ʿAbdullāh b. Jundab
- Faḍl b. Sinān
- Abū ʿAlī b. Rāshid
- ʿAlī b. Ryān b. Ṣalt Qummī
- Hishām b. Ibrāhīm ʿAbbāsī[6]
People of Consensus
- Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Abi Nasr al-Bazanti; (b.152/769 - d.221/836), one of the early Imami scholars in Kufa, and a companion of Imam al-Kazim (a), Imam al-Rida (a), and Imam al-Jawad (a).
- Al-Hasan b. Mahbub; (d. 224/839), was a companion of Imam al-Kazim (a), Imam al-Rida (a), and Imam al-Jawad (a). He is one of the great figures in hadith and fiqh. His name appears in the chains of transmission of many hadiths in the Four Books.
- Muhammad b. Abi 'Umayr; (d. 217/832-3) known as Ibn Abī Umayr was a grand Twelver hadith narrator. His mursal narrations are accepted similar to his musnad narrations by most of rijal scholars.
- 'Abd Allah b. al-Mughira; a companion of Imam al-Kazim (a) and Imam al-Rida (a). The scholars of rijal regard him as a trustworthy hadith transmitter and praise his righteousness and piety.
- Safwan b. Yahya al-Bajali; a companion of Imam al-Kazim (a), a deputy of Imam al-Rida (a), and Imam al-Jawad (a).
- Hammad b. 'Uthman; (d. 190/805-6), a Shi'a Hadith scholar, narrator, and jurist.
- Yunus b. 'Abd al-Rahman; one of the companions of Imam al-Kazim (a) and Imam al-Rida (a). He met Imam al-Baqir (a) and Imam al-Sadiq (a), but he only transmitted hadith from Imam al-Kazim (a) and Imam al-Rida (a). He is praised in rijal sources.
- Faddala b. Ayyub; was a companion of Imam al-Kazim (a) and Imam al-Rida (a) and a reliable Shiite narrator of hadiths. He wrote works such as Kitab al-salat and Kitab al-nawadir.
- Hasan b. Ali b. Faddal; a reliable (Thiqa) Shi'a narrator and a close companion of Imam al-Rida (a). He had the opportunity to meet Imam al-Kazim (a), as well.
- Jamil b. Darraj; an outstanding Shi'a hadith transmitter, hadith scholar, and faqih of the 2/8century. After the demise of Imam al-Kazim (a), He became a Waqifi for a short time but soon he changed his mind and became one of the companions of Imam al-Rida (a).
- Hammad b. 'Isa al-Juhani; (d. 209/824-825) a companion of Imam al-Sadiq (a), Imam al-Kazim (a), Imam al-Rida (a), and Imam al-Jawad (a). More than 1,500 hadiths are quoted from Hammad in Shi'a hadith sources.
Other Narrators
- Al-Husayn b. Sa'id al-Ahwazi; a companion of Imam al-Rida (a), Imam al-Jawad (a), and Imam al-Hadi (a). He was a jurist and Muhaddith, together with his brother al-Hasan, composed important jurisprudential and hadith works.
- Al-Hasan b. Sa'id al-Ahwazi; a companion of Imam al-Rida (a) and the brother of al-Husayn b. Sa'id al-Ahwazi. He was born in Kufa, but he later immigrated to Ahvaz and lived there. He was alive until 220/835. He is considered as a reliable transmitter of hadiths by scholars of rijal.
- Rayyan b. Salt; a prominent Shi'a muhaddith in the 2nd/8th, and 3rd/9th centuries.
- Dawud b. Sulayman al-Ghazi; an Imami transmitter of hadith in the 2nd/8th and 3rd/9th centuries, and a companion of Imam al-Rida (a) who met the Imam (a) when he (a) was traveling through Qazvin.
- Dawud b. Kathir al-Raqqi; an Imami prolific transmitter of hadiths in the 2nd/8th century and a companion of Imam al-Sadiq (a), Imam al-Kazim (a), and Imam al-Rida (a). He transmitted many hadiths concerning theology, fiqh, the exegesis of the Holy Qur'an, and ethics.
- Rayyan b. Shabib; a the companion of Imam al-Rida (a) and Imam al-Jawad (a).
- Muhammad b. Jumhur al-'Ammi; (210/825-6) known as Ibn Jumhur was among Shi'a scholars of hadiths and literature and among special companions of Imam al-Rida (a) who has narrated hadiths from him.
- 'Ali b. Isma'il al-Maythami; known as Ibn Maytham, was a Shiite theologian in the 2nd/8th and 3rd/9th centuries who transmitted hadiths from Imam al-Rida (a). According to Ibn Nadim, he was the first person who did theology in accordance to the principles of Imamiyya.
Others
- Dawud b. al-Qasim b. Ishaq; known as Abū Hāshim al-Ja'farī and Dāwūd b. al-Qāsim al-Jaʿfarī (d. 261/875) was a companion of four Shiite Imams (a): Imam al-Rida (a), Imam al-Jawad (a), Imam al-Hadi (a), and Imam al-Hasan al-'Askari (a).
- Ibn Abjar al-Kanani
- Khayran al-Khadim; a Shi'a transmitter of hadith in 2nd/8th and 3rd/9th centuries who was a servant of Imam al-Rida (a) and deputy of Imam al-Jawad (a) and Imam al-Hadi (a). Great scholars such as al-Shaykh al-Tusi have mentioned him as reliable.
Buried in Iran
- Abu l-Salt al-Hirawi; (b. about 160/776 d.236/851), a close companion of Imam al-Rida (a) and a scholar of hadiths and kalam (theology).
- Ishaq b. Imam al-Kazim (a); one of the children of Imam Musa al-Kazim (a). According to historical reports, he and his brother Imam al-Rida (a) went to Merv and then in the same year Imam al-Rida (a) was called crown prince returned to Hijaz as Amir al-hajj.
- Fatima al-Ma'suma; the daughter of Imam al-Kazim (a). She is a highly esteemed and virtuous lady of Ahl al-Bayt (a).
- Di'bil b. 'Ali al-Khuza'i; one of the companions of Imam Musa b. Ja'far and Imam al-Rida (a)[1]. He also had the chance to meet Imam al-Jawad (a).
- Ahmad b. Imam al-Kazim (a); known in Iran as Shāhchirāgh and also as Sayyid al-Sādāt al-Aʿāẓim, was one of Imam Musa al-Kazim's (a) sons.
- Hamza b. Imam al-Kazim (a); a son of Imam al-Kazim (a). He was a knowledgeable scholar and was especially popular among people. According to some reports, companions of al-Ma'mun killed him.
- 'Ali b. Mahziyar al-Ahwazi; was among close companions of Imam al-Jawad (a) and Imam al-Hadi (a) and was their agents in some regions.
- Husayn b. Musa b. Ja'far (a); one of the children of Imam Musa al-Kazim (a) and the brother of Imam al-Rida (a). He was among transmitters of hadiths and transmitted hadiths from Imam al-Kazim (a), Imam al-Rida (a) and his mother.
- Zakariyya b. Adam al-Ash'ari al-Qummi; an Imami muhaddith in the 2nd/8th and 3rd/9th centuries and a companion of Imam al-Sadiq (a). He transmitted hadiths from Imam al-Kazim (a), and was a representative of Imam al-Rida (a) and Imam al-Jawad (a) in Qom.
- Zakariyya b. Idris; known as Abū Jarīr al-Qummī was among Shia scholar of hadith in the 2nd/8th and 3rd/9th centuries and a companion of Imam al-Sadiq (a), Imam al-Kazim (a) and Imam al-Rida (a).
- 'Abd Allah b. Imam al-Kazim (a); known as ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿAwkalānī, was a son of Imam Musa al-Kazim (a).
- 'Abd al-'Azim al-Hasani; among the famous scholars of the progeny of Imam al-Hasan (a) and a transmitter of hadith.
- 'Ali b. Imam al-Sadiq (a); He is counted the youngest child of Imam al-Sadiq (a) who also experienced the Imam al-Hadi's period.
See also
Notes
- ↑ Ṭūsī, Rijāl-i Ṭūsī, p. 351-370.
- ↑ ʿAṭārudī, Masnad al-Imām al-Riḍā (a), p. 509.
- ↑ Qarashī, Ḥayāt al-Imām ʿAlī b. Mūsā al-Riḍā, p. 123-242.
- ↑ Najaf, al-Jāmiʿ li-ruwat wa asḥāb al-Imām al-Riḍā (a). p. ?
- ↑ Ṭūsī, Rijāl-i Ṭūsī, p. 363-364.
- ↑ Jabbārī, Sāzmān-i wakālat wa naqsh-i an dar ʿasr-i Aʾimma, p. 424.
References
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- Jabbārī, Muḥammad Riḍā. Sāzmān-i wakālat wa naqsh-i an dar ʿasr-i Aʾimma. 1st edition. Qom: Muʾassisa-yi Āmūzishī wa Pazhūhishī-yi Imām Khomeiniī, 1382 SH.
- Najaf, Muḥammad Mahdī. Al-Jāmiʿ li-ruwat wa asḥāb al-Imām al-Riḍā (a). 1st edition. Mashhad: al-Muʾtamar al-ʿĀlamīyya li-l-Imām al-Riḍā (a), 1407 AH.
- Qarashī, Bāqir Sharīf al-. Ḥayāt al-Imām ʿAlī b. Mūsā al-Riḍā. Qom: Mihr-i Dildār, 1429 AH.
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