A voice in the chain
سليمان بن حيان الجعفري
سليمان بن حيان
Appears in 145 hadith across the six canonical collections.
An abridged path through the isnād
From the Prophet ﷺ to the written books
مُحَمَّد ﷺ
The Messenger
Immediate teacher layer
Received from
سليمان بن حيان الجعفري
Selected narrator
Immediate student layer
Passed onward to
Preserved in the six books
صحيح البخاري
Sahih al-Bukhari
8
صحيح مسلم
Sahih Muslim
39
سنن أبي داود
Sunan Abi Dawud
19
جامع الترمذي
Jami‘ at-Tirmidhi
22
سنن النسائي
Sunan an-Nasa’i
11
سنن ابن ماجه
Sunan Ibn Majah
46
Historical scholarship
Classical assessments
Ibn Hajar al-‘Asqalani
صدوق يخطئ
Al-Dhahabi
صدوق ، إمام
Life & identity
Biographical notes
- Kunya
- أبو خالد
- Laqab
- الأحمر
- Lineage / nisba
- الأزدي ، الكوفي ، الجعفري ، الأحمر، شامي الأصل
- Generation
- الثامنة
- Born
- 114 هـ
- Died
- 189 هـ ، أو 190 هـ
- Lived in
- الكوفة
- Travelled to
- بجرجان
Teachers in the transmission
Received from
Students in the transmission
Passed onward to
The written record
Hadith in this narrator’s chain
Bukhari · 430رَأَيْتُ ابْنَ عُمَرَ يُصَلِّي إِلَى بَعِيرِهِ ، وَقَالَ : رَأَيْتُ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَفْعَلُهُ"I saw Ibn 'Umar praying while taking his camel as a Sutra in front of him and he said, "I saw the Prophet doing the same."5 narratorsBukhari · 1141كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يُفْطِرُ مِنَ الشَّهْرِ حَتَّى نَظُنَّ أَنْ لَا يَصُومَ مِنْهُ ، وَيَصُومُ حَتَّى نَظُنَّ أَنْ لَا يُفْطِرَ مِنْهُ شَيْئًا ، وَكَانَ لَا تَشَاءُ أَنْ تَرَاهُ مِنَ اSometimes Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) would not fast (for so many days) that we thought that he would not fast that month and he sometimes used to fast (for so many days) that we thought he would not leave fasting throughout t7 narrators·parallel chainBukhari · 1953جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ، فَقَالَ : يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ، إِنَّ أُمِّي مَاتَتْ وَعَلَيْهَا صَوْمُ شَهْرٍ ، أَفَأَقْضِيهِ عَنْهَا ؟ قَالَ : نَعَمْ ، قَالَ : فَدَيْنُ اللَّهِ أَحَقُّA man came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! My mother died and she ought to have fasted one month (for her missed Ramadan). Shall I fast on her behalf?" The Prophet (ﷺ) replied in the affirmative an35 narrators·parallel chainBukhari · 1972كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يُفْطِرُ مِنَ الشَّهْرِ ، حَتَّى نَظُنَّ أَنْ لَا يَصُومَ مِنْهُ ، وَيَصُومُ حَتَّى نَظُنَّ أَنْ لَا يُفْطِرَ مِنْهُ شَيْئًا ، وَكَانَ لَا تَشَاءُ تَرَاهُ مِنَ اللّAllah's Messenger (ﷺ) used to leave fasting in a certain month till we thought that he would not fast in that month, and he used to fast in another month till we thought he would not stop fasting at all in that month. An7 narrators·parallel chainBukhari · 1973مَا كُنْتُ أُحِبُّ أَنْ أَرَاهُ مِنَ الشَّهْرِ صَائِمًا إِلَّا رَأَيْتُهُ ، وَلَا مُفْطِرًا إِلَّا رَأَيْتُهُ ، وَلَا مِنَ اللَّيْلِ قَائِمًا إِلَّا رَأَيْتُهُ ، وَلَا نَائِمًا إِلَّا رَأَيْتُهُ ، وَلَا مَسِسْتُ خَزَّةً I asked Anas about the fasting of the Prophet. He said "Whenever I liked to see the Prophet (ﷺ) fasting in any month, I could see that, and whenever I liked to see him not fasting, I could see that too, and if I liked to4 narratorsBukhari · 5507حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ ، حَدَّثَنَا أُسَامَةُ بْنُ حَفْصٍ الْمَدَنِيُّ ، عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ عُرْوَةَ ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا : أَنَّ قَوْمًا قَالُوا لِلنَّA group of people said to the Prophet, "Some people bring us meat and we do not know whether they have mentioned Allah's Name or not on slaughtering the animal." He said, "Mention Allah's Name on it and eat." Those peopl9 narratorsBukhari · 6501إِنَّ حَقًّا عَلَى اللَّهِ أَنْ لَا يَرْفَعَ شَيْئًا مِنَ الدُّنْيَا إِلَّا وَضَعَهُThe Prophet (ﷺ) had a she-camel called Al-`Adba' and it was too fast to surpass in speed. There came a bedouin riding a camel of his, and that camel outstripped it (i.e. Al-Aqba'). That result was hard on the Muslims who9 narrators·parallel chainBukhari · 7398يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ، إِنَّ هَا هُنَا أَقْوَامًا حَدِيثٌ عَهْدُهُمْ بِشِرْكٍ يَأْتُونَا بِلُحْمَانٍ لَا نَدْرِي يَذْكُرُونَ اسْمَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهَا أَمْ لَا ؟ ، قَالَ : اذْكُرُوا أَنْتُمُ اسْمَ اللَّهِ وَكُلُواThe people said to the Prophet (ﷺ) , "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! Here are people who have recently embraced Islam and they bring meat, and we do not know whether they had mentioned Allah's Name while slaughtering the anima8 narratorsMuslim · 111بُنِيَ الإِسْلَامُ عَلَى خَمْسَةٍ ، عَلَى أَنْ يُوَحَّدَ اللَّهُ ، وَإِقَامِ الصَّلَاةِ ، وَإِيتَاءِ الزَّكَاةِ ، وَصِيَامِ رَمَضَانَ ، وَالْحَجِّ5 narratorsMuslim · 131وحَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو خَالِدٍ الأَحْمَرُ . ح وَحَدَّثَنِيهِ زُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ ، حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ هَارُونَ كِلَاهُمَا ، عَنْ أَبِي مَالِكٍ ، عَنْ أَبِيه6 narrators·parallel chainMuslim · 277أَفَلَا شَقَقْتَ عَنْ قَلْبِهِ ، حَتَّى تَعْلَمَ أَقَالَهَا أَمْ لَا ؟8 narrators·parallel chainMuslim · 337مَنْ هَمَّ بِحَسَنَةٍ فَلَمْ يَعْمَلْهَا كُتِبَتْ لَهُ حَسَنَةً ، وَمَنْ هَمَّ بِحَسَنَةٍ فَعَمِلَهَا كُتِبَتْ لَهُ عَشْرًا إِلَى سَبْعِ مِائَةِ ضِعْفٍ ، وَمَنْ هَمَّ بِسَيِّئَةٍ فَلَمْ يَعْمَلْهَا لَمْ تُكْتَبْ ، وَإِنْ5 narrators