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List of the Companions of Imam al-Hadi (a)

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The Companions of Imam al-Hadi (a) refer to those who are mentioned in Shia sources as narrators, representatives, and companions of Imam al-Hadi (a), the tenth Imam of the Shia. Approximately 193 individuals are identified as companions of Imam Ali al-Naqi (a) in the sources.

Number

The number of the companions of Imam al-Hadi (a) is said to amount to 190.[1] According to Al-Rijal (al-Tusi), the number of people who transmitted hadiths from the Imam (a) are over 185.[2] In his Musnad al-Imam al-Hadi, 'Aziz Allah 'Utaridi refers to 179 people as transmitters of hadiths from Imam al-Hadi (a), suggesting that some of them are reliable and others are unreliable, good (hasan), abandoned, and unknown.[3] According to 'Atarudi, some of the transmitters he mentions are not mentioned in Rijal al-Tusi, and some of the ones mentioned by al-Tusi are not mentioned in 'Atarudi’s Musnad.[4]

'Abd al-Husayn al-Shabistari mentions 193 people as companions of al-Imam al-Hadi (a) in his al-Nur al-hadi ila ashab al-Imam al-Hadi,[5] and Qazwini mentions 346 people in his al-Imam al-Hadi min al-mahd ila al-lahd.[6]

Companions of al-Imam al-Hadi in Rijal al-Tusi

Al-Shaykh al-Tusi, in his book Rijal, under the title 'Companions of Abu al-Hasan the Third, Ali b. Muhammad (a)', has listed the following names:[7]

  • Aḥmad b. Ismāʿīl b. Yaqṭīn
  • Aḥmad b. Ḥamza b. Yasaʿ Qummī, (Thiqa)
  • Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿĪsá Ashʿarī Qummī
  • Aḥmad b. Ḥasan b. Isḥāq b. Saʿd
  • Aḥmad b. Khadhīb
  • Ibrāhīm b. Isḥāq (Thiqa)
  • Ibrāhīm b. ʿUqba
  • Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad Hamadānī
  • Ibrāhīm b. Idrīs
  • Ibrāhīm b. Mahzīyār Ahwāzī
  • Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Fāris Nayshābūrī
  • Ibrāhīm b. Dāwūd Yaʿqūbī
  • Ayūb b. Nūḥ b. Darrāj,
  • Aḥmad b. Isḥāq Rāzī, (thiqa)
  • Ibrāhīm yukanī Abā Muḥammad
  • Aḥmad b. Abī ʿAbd Allāh Barqī
  • Aḥmad b. Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Faḍḍāl
  • Aḥmad b. Zakarīyā b. Bābā
  • Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbdah Naysābūrī
  • Aḥmad b. Ḥilāl al-ʿAbartāʾi al-Baghdadī (Ghālī)
  • Ibrāhīm b. Shaybah
  • Isḥāq b. Ismāʿīl b. Nūbakht
  • Aḥmad b. Muḥammad Sīyārī
  • Isḥāq b. Muḥammad Baṣrī, (acused to ghuluw)
  • Ibrāhīm Dihqān
  • Aḥmad b. Faḍl
  • Bushr b. Bishār Naysābūrī
  • Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl b. Khattāb
  • Jaʿfar b. Ibrāhīm
  • Jaʿfar b. Hishām
  • Jaʿfar b. Aḥmad
  • Jaʿfar b. ʿAbdullāh b. Ḥusayn b. Jāmiʿ
  • Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad b. Yūnus Aḥwal
  • Jaʿfar b. Sulaymān
  • Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. Akhī Muḥammad b. Rajāʾ al-Khiyāṭ
  • Ḥasan b. ʿAlī Washāʾ
  • Ḥasan b. Muḥammad Madāʾinī
  • Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. ʿUmar b. ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib (ʿa)
  • Ḥasan b. Ḥasan ʿAlawī
  • Ḥusayn b. Saʿīd Kūfī Ahwāzī
  • Ḥusayn b. Asad Baṣrī
  • Ḥusayn b. Mālik Qummī, (thiqa)
  • Ḥafṣ Marwazī
  • Ḥasan b. Rāshid with the teknonym Abā ʿAlī al-Baghdādī
  • Ḥasan b. Ẓarīf
  • Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Abī ʿUthmān
  • Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. Ḥayy
  • Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad Madāʾinī
  • Ḥamza Mawlā ʿAlī b. Sulaymān b. Rashīd al-Baghdādī
  • Ḥātim b. Faraj
  • Ḥasan b. Jaʿfar known as Abā Ṭālib Fāfānī al-Baghdādī
  • Ḥusayn b. Ashkīb Qummī Khādim al-Qabr
  • Ḥusayn b. ʿUbayd Allāh Qummī (acused to ghuluw)
  • Ḥasan b. Khurazādh Qummī
  • Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. Bābā Qummī, (Ghālī)
  • Ḥasan b. Sufyān Kūfī
  • Ḥasan b. Ḥusayn ʿAlawī
  • Ḥamdān b. Sulaymān b. ʿAmīra Naysābūrī known as Tājir
  • Khayrān Khādim (thiqa)
  • Khayrān b. Isḥāq Zākānī
  • Khalīl b. Hishām Fārsī
  • Dāwūd b. Qāsim al-Jaʿfarī teknonym Abā Hāshim, (thiqa)
  • Dāwūd b. Abī Zayd, his name is Zankān, Abā Sulaymān Naysābūrī
  • Dāwūd Ṣīrafī with teknonym Abā Sulaymān
  • Rayyān b. Ṣalat al-Baghdādī (thiqa)
  • Rajāʾ ʿAbartāʾī b. Yaḥyā with teknonym Abā Ḥusayn
  • Sulaymān b. Dāwūd Marwazī
  • Sulaymān b. Ḥafṣūyah
  • Sahl b. Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq with teknony Abā Sarī, titled as Abā Nuwās
  • Sahl b. Ziyād Ādamī with teknonym Abā Saʿīd thiqa Rāzī
  • Serrī b. Salāma Aṣbahānī
  • Sindī b. Muḥammad akhū ʿAlī
  • Shāhūya b. ʿAbdullāh
  • Ṣāliḥ b. Muḥammad Hamdānī, (thiqa)
  • Ṣāliḥ b. ʿĪsā b. ʿAmr b. Bazīʿ
  • Ṣāliḥ b. Muslima Rāzī with teknonym Abā Khayr
  • ʿAbd al-ʿAzīm al-Ḥasanī
  • ʿĪsā b. Aḥmad b. ʿĪsā b. Manṣūr
  • ʿAlī b. Mahzīyār Ahwāzī, (thiqa)
  • ʿAlī b. ʿAbdullāh
  • ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn b. ʿAbd Rabbih
  • ʿAlī b. Bilāl al-Baghdādī, with teknonym Abā al-Ḥasan
  • ʿAlī b. Maʿbad al-Baghdādī
  • ʿAlī b. Sulaymān b. Rashīd al-Baghdādī
  • ʿAlī b. Shīr (thiqa)
  • ʿAlī b. Muḥammad Qāshānī
  • ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn Hamadānī (thiqa)
  • ʿAlī b. Ziyād Ṣaymarī
  • ʿAlī b. Muḥammad Nūfilī
  • ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-Ghaffār
  • ʿAlī b. Jaʿfar Hamānī, (thiqa)
  • ʿAlī b. ʿAmr ʿAṭṭār Qazwīnī
  • ʿAlī b. Ḥusayn
  • ʿAlī b. ʿUbayd Allāh
  • ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm Hamadānī
  • ʿAlī b. Abī Qurrā with teknonym Abā al-Ḥasan
  • ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Muḥammad b. Ṭayfūr al-Muṭabbib
  • ʿAlī b. Yaḥyā Dihqān Ghālī
  • ʿAlī b. ʿAbdullāh b. Jaʿfar Ḥimyarī
  • ʿAlī b. Rayyān b. Ṣalat
  • ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Ziyād Ṣaymarī
  • ʿAlī b. Ḥasan b. Faḍḍāl
  • ʿAlī b. ʿAbdullāh
  • ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Muḥammad b. Maʿrūf Qummī
  • ʿAbd al-Ṣamad b. Muḥammad Qummī
  • ʿAlī b. Muḥammad Minqarī
  • ʿAlī b. ʿAbdullāh Zubayrī
  • ʿAlī b. Ramīs al-Baghdādī, (ḍaʿīf)
  • ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm
  • ʿAbdūs ʿAṭṭār al-Kūfī
  • ʿUrwat Naḥkās Dihqān, malʿūn Ghālī
  • ʿUthmān b. Saʿīd al-ʿAmrī
  • Faḍl b. Shādhān Naysābūrī (260 AH/873-4)
  • Fataḥ b. Yazīd Jurjānī
  • Fāris b. Ḥātim Qazwīnī, (Ghālī)
  • Faḍl b. Kathīr al-Baghdādī
  • Qāsim Ṣayqal
  • Qāsim Shuʿrānī Yaqṭīnī, (accused to ghuluw)
  • Kāfūr Khādim, (thiqa)
  • Musāfir Mawlāh ʿalayh al-Salām
  • Muḥammad b. Saʿīd b. Kulthūm Marwazī
  • Muḥammad b. Faraj Rukhajī[8]
  • Muḥammad b. Rajāʾ Khayyāṭ
  • Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Mahzīyār (thiqa)
  • Muḥammad b. ʿUbayd Allāh min ahl Ṭāhī
  • Muḥammad b. Jazak Jamāl, (thiqa)
  • Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm
  • Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh Nūfilī al-Hamadānī
  • Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā b. ʿUbayd al-Yaqṭīnī
  • Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā with teknonym Abā Yaḥyā Baṣrī
  • Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā Ashʿarī Qummī
  • Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Muṭahhar
  • Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿUbayd Allāh b. Manṣūr
  • Muḥammad b. Marwān Jalāb, (thiqa)
  • Muḥammad b. Rayyān b. Ṣallat (254 AH), (thiqa)
  • Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār wa huwa b. Abī Ṣahbān Qummī, (thiqa)
  • Muḥammad b. Abī Ṭayfūr Muṭabbib
  • Muḥammad b. Faḍl
  • Mūsā b. ʿUmar Ḥuḍaynī
  • Mūsā b. ʿUmar b. Bazīʿ
  • Muṣfalāt b. Isḥāq Qummī Ashʿarī
  • Muḥammad b. Ḥusayn b. Abī al-Khattāb (262 AH)
  • Manṣūr b. ʿAbbās
  • Muḥammad b. Ḥuṣayn Ahwāzī
  • Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Mihrān Karkhī, (accused to ghuluw and ḍaʿīf)
  • Muḥammad b. Ḥasan b. Shamūn Baṣrī
  • Mūsā b. Dāwūd Yaʿqūbī
  • Mūsā b. Muḥammad Ḥuḍaynī
  • Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Daryāb
  • Muḥammad b. Sulaymān Jalāb
  • Muḥammad b. Ḥamza Qummī
  • Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl Ṣaymarī Qummī
  • Muḥammad b. Ṣayfī al-Kūfī
  • Muḥammad b. Khālid Rāzī with teknonym Abā al-ʿAbbās
  • Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl Balkhī
  • Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ḥammād Muḥammadī with teknonym Abā ʿAlī
  • Muḥammad b. Mūsā Rubaʿī
  • Muḥammad b. Ḥuṣayn Fahhrī, (malʿūn)
  • Muḥammad b. Marwān Khattāb
  • Muḥammad b. Qāsim b. Ḥamza b. Mūsā ʿAlawī
  • Muʿāwīah b. Ḥakīm b. Muʿāwīah b. ʿAmr al-Kūfī
  • Muḥammad b. Ḥasan Rāzī Zaynabī
  • Mūsā b. Murshid Warrāq Naysābūrī
  • Muḥammad b. Mūsā b. Farāt
  • Naẓr b. Muḥammad Hamadānī, (thiqa)
  • Naṣr b. Ḥāzim Qummī
  • Yaḥyā b. Muḥammad
  • Yaʿqūb b. Yazīd, (kātib thiqa)
  • Yaʿqūb Bajlī
  • Yaḥyā b. Abī Bakr Rāzī ẓarīr
  • Yaʿqūb b. Manqūsh
  • Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq (244 AH)
  • Abū al-Ḥuṣayn b. Ḥuṣayn, (thiqa)
  • Abū ʿAbdullāh Maghāzī, (Ghālī)
  • Abū Ṭāhir b. Ḥamza b. Yasaʿ Ashʿarī Qummī, (thiqa)
  • Abū ʿAmr Ḥadhāʾ
  • Abū Ḥusayn b. Hilāl, (thiqa)
  • Abū ʿAbdullāh b. Abī Ḥusayn
  • Abū Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm
  • Abū Bakr Fahfakī b. Abī Ṭayfūr Muṭabbib
  • Abū ʿAbdullāh Makkārī
  • Abū Ṭāhir Barqī, the brother of Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Barqī
  • Abū Yaḥyā Jurjānī
  • Abū Ṭāhir Muḥammad and Abū al-Ḥasan and Abū al-Muṭabbib b. ʿAlī b. Bilāl b. Rāshtat al-Muṭabbib
  • Kaltham al-Karkhīyah[9]

Ibn Shahr Ashub mentions individuals such as Ahmad b. Ḥamza b. Yasʿ, Ṣāliḥ b. Muḥammad Hamadānī, Muḥammad b. Jazāk al-Jamāl, Yaʿqūb b. Yazīd al-Kātib, Abū Ḥusayn b. Hilāl, Ibrāhīm b. Isḥāq, Khayrān Khādim, and Naẓr b. Muḥammad Hamadānī as trustworthy individuals in his regard. Additionally, among his companions, he mentions Dāwūd b. Zayd, Abū Sulaymān Zankān, Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad Hamadānī, Aḥmad b. Ismāʿīl b. Yaqṭīn, Bushr b. Bashār Naysābūrī, Sulaymān b. Jaʿfar Marwazī, Fataḥ b. Yazīd Jurjānī, and Muḥammad b. Saʿīd Kulthūm. He also names Muʿāwīya b. Ḥakīm al-Kūfī, ʿAlī b. Maʿd b. Muḥammad al-Baghdādī, and Abū Ḥasan b. Rajāʾ Abaratī, and introduces Muḥammad b. ʿUthmān as his door (representative).[10]

Deputies of Imam al-Hadi (a)

Iranian Companions

Some researchers, in order to prove the Iranian origin of some of the companions of Imam al-Hadi (a), have referred to the urban suffixes of their names. Based on this, the places of residence of individuals such as Bushr b. Bashār Naysābūrī, Fataḥ b. Yazīd Jurjānī, Ḥusayn b. Saʿīd Ahwāzī, Ḥamdan b. Isḥāq Khurāsānī, ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm Ṭālaqānī, Muḥammad b. ʿAlī Kāshānī,[15] Ibrāhīm b. Shayba Iṣfahānī, and Abū Muqātil Daylamī[16] have been considered to be in Iran among the companions of that Imam.[17]

Notes

  1. Jāfariān, Hayāt fikri sīyāsī-yi Imāmān-i Shīʿa, p. 160.
  2. Ṭūsī, Rijāl, p. 378.
  3. ʿAṭārudī, Masnad al-Imām al-Hādī (a), p. 307.
  4. ʿAṭārudī, Masnad al-Imām al-Hādī (a), p. 307.
  5. Shabistarī, Al-Nūr al-hādī ilā aṣḥāb Imām al-Hādī (a), p. 300.
  6. Qazwīnī, Al-Imām al-Hādī min al-mahd ilā al-lahd, p. 140- 467.
  7. Ṭūsī, Rijāl, p. 383.
  8. Ṭūsī, Rijāl, p. 390.
  9. Ṭūsī, Rijāl, p. 383.
  10. Ibn Shahr Āshūb, Manaqib Āl Abī Ṭālib (a), vol. 4, p. 402.
  11. Jabbārī, Sāzmān-i wakālat wa naqsh-i an dar ʿasr-i Aʾimma, vol. 2, p. 428-429.
  12. Jabbārī, Sāzmān-i wakālat wa naqsh-i an dar ʿasr-i Aʾimma, vol. 2, p. 428.
  13. Qazwīnī, Al-Imām al-Hādī min al-mahd ilā al-lahd, p. 140.
  14. Muṭahharī, Majmūʿa maqālāt-i hamāyish-i beyn al-milalī sīra wa zamāna-yi Imām Hādī, vol. 3, p. 93.
  15. Ṣadūq, al-Tawḥīd, p. 101.
  16. ʿAṭārudī, Masnad al-Imām al-Hādī (a), p. 317.
  17. Jāfariān, Hayāt fikri sīyāsī-yi Imāmān-i Shīʿa, p. 658.

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