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

  1. 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).
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. '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.
  5. Safwan b. Yahya al-Bajali; a companion of Imam al-Kazim (a), a deputy of Imam al-Rida (a), and Imam al-Jawad (a).
  6. Hammad b. 'Uthman; (d. 190/805-6), a Shi'a Hadith scholar, narrator, and jurist.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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).
  11. 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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Rayyan b. Salt; a prominent Shi'a muhaddith in the 2nd/8th, and 3rd/9th centuries.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Rayyan b. Shabib; a the companion of Imam al-Rida (a) and Imam al-Jawad (a).
  7. 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.
  8. '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

  1. 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).
  2. Ibn Abjar al-Kanani
  3. 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

  1. 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).
  2. 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.
  3. Fatima al-Ma'suma; the daughter of Imam al-Kazim (a). She is a highly esteemed and virtuous lady of Ahl al-Bayt (a).
  4. 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).
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. '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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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).
  11. 'Abd Allah b. Imam al-Kazim (a); known as ʿAbd Allāh al-ʿAwkalānī, was a son of Imam Musa al-Kazim (a).
  12. 'Abd al-'Azim al-Hasani; among the famous scholars of the progeny of Imam al-Hasan (a) and a transmitter of hadith.
  13. '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

  1. Ṭūsī, Rijāl-i Ṭūsī, p. 351-370.
  2. ʿAṭārudī, Masnad al-Imām al-Riḍā (a), p. 509.
  3. Qarashī, Ḥayāt al-Imām ʿAlī b. Mūsā al-Riḍā, p. 123-242.
  4. Najaf, al-Jāmiʿ li-ruwat wa asḥāb al-Imām al-Riḍā (a). p. ?
  5. Ṭūsī, Rijāl-i Ṭūsī, p. 363-364.
  6. Jabbārī, Sāzmān-i wakālat wa naqsh-i an dar ʿasr-i Aʾimma, p. 424.

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