Muhammad Ibn Ya'qub Al-Kulayni - His Students

His Students

A number of Shiite jurisprudents and scholars of hadith, who were among famous scholars in the first half of the 4th century AH in Iran and Iraq, totaling fifteen people altogether were Kulayni's students. Others are among the category of eminent scholars. Also teachers of a great number of renowned scholars of the second half of the 4th century AH are considered as some of Kulayni’s students.

1. Ahmad ibn Ibrahim, popularly known as Ibn Abi Rafi Simri
2. Ahmad ibn Katib Kufi
3. Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Saeed Kufi
4. Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ali Kufi
5. Abu Ghalib Ahmad ibn Muhammad Zarari (285-364 AH)
6. Ja’far ibn Muhammad ibn Quluwiya Qumi (368 AH)
7. Abdul Karim Abdullah ibn Nasr Bazaz Tanisi
8. Ali ibn Ahmad ibn Musa Diqan
9. Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Ni’mani well known as Ibn Abi Zainab, who was one of his special students and copied his book al-Kafi in his own hand writing
10. Muhammad ibn Ahmad Safwan, the resident of Baghdad, was one of his special students and copied his book al-Kafi line by line in his own handwriting and learned theoretical knowledge and ethics from him and was praised by Kulayni for his knowledge of the Hadith
11. Muhammad ibn Ahmad Sanani Zahri the resident of Rey
12. Abul Fazl Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn Matlab Shibani
13. Muhammad ibn Ali Majluwiya
14. Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Asam Kulayni
15. Harun ibn Musa Talakbari Shibbani (b 385 AH)