He was called al-Dahhan. He was among the companions of Imam al-Baqir, peace be on him, and among Imam al-Sadiq, peace be on him. He reported on the authority of Imam Abu 'Abd Allah (al-Sadiq). Mohammed b. 'Abd al-Rahman b. Hammad reported on the authority of Al-Hasan bin 'Ammar.1
He was from Kufa. He was among the companions of Imam al-Baqir, peace be on him.2Shaykh al-Tusi numbered him as one of the companions of Imam al- Sajjad, peace be on him.
He was called al-Bajali al-Kufi. Shaykh al-Mufid reported on the authority of al-Hasan b. Kuthayr, who said: "I complained to Abu Ja'far, peace be on him, of (my) need and the uselessness of brothers." "Shame on the brother who looks after you when you are rich and separates from you when you are poor." Then he ordered his servant-boy to take out a porch in which were seven hundred dirhams. "Spend this," he told me, "and when you have used it, tell me.3
Shaykh al-Tusi numbered him and his brother al-Hasan as two of the companions of Imam al- Baqir, peace be on him.4 Apparently, he was an unknown Imami Shi'ite.
Shaykh al-Tusi numbered him as one of the companions of
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1. Ibid. p. 77.
2. Al-Tusi, Rijal.
3. Al-Mufid, al-Irshad. Tanqih al-MAqal, vol. 1, p. 303.
4. Al-Tusi, Rijal.