along with al-Zuhrī, Atā ibn Abī Rabāh, Rabī'a ibn Abī Abd al-Rahmān (1), al-A'raj—who was older than he—his son Ja'far, Ibn Jurayj, Yahyā ibn Abī Kathīr (2), al-Awzāī, and others.
Ja'far al-Sādiq—may Allah be pleased with him—was among the foremost men of knowledge and religion. He acquired knowledge from his maternal grandfather, al-Qāsim ibn Muhammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Siddīq, the father of his mother (3), Umm Farwa; and from Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir, Nāfi [the freedman of Ibn Umar] (4), al-Zuhrī, Atā [ibn Abī Rabāh] (5), and others. Those who narrated from him included Yahyā ibn Saīd al-Ansārī, Mālik [ibn Anas] (6), Sufyān al-Thawrī, Sufyān ibn Uyayna, Ibn Jurayj, Shuba, Yahyā ibn Saīd al-Qattān, Hātim ibn Ismāīl (7), Hafs ibn Ghiyāth, and Muhammad ibn Ishāq [ibn Yasār] (8).
Amr ibn Abī al-Miqdām said: “Whenever I looked
(1) R and S read: “and Rabīa ibn Abd al-Rahmān.” He is Rabīa al-Ra'y. See his biography in *Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb*, 3/258–259.
(2) S, R, W, and H read: “Yahyā ibn Kathīr.” I deemed the reading I adopted to be correct. See the biography of Yahyā ibn Kathīr in *Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb*, 11/268–270.
(3) N reads: “Abī Umayya,” which is a corruption. The margin of R states: “His mother—may Allah be pleased with her—the original reads ‘him’—was Asmā bint Abd al-Rahmān ibn Abī Bakr.”
(4) The words in brackets are omitted from N and M.
(5) The words in brackets are omitted from N and M.
(6) “Ibn Anas” is omitted from N and M.
(7) N, M, and W read: “and Khālid ibn Ismāīl,” which is an error. See the biography of Hātim ibn Ismāīl in *Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb*, 2/128–129.
(8) “Ibn Yasār” is an addition in A and B. See his biography in *Tahdhīb al-Tahdhīb*, 9/38–46.