List of Shia hadith scholars

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Shia Hadith Scholars and the Rijal Books

Overview
Shia hadith scholars are transmitters who quoted sayings from Shia Imams, directly or through intermediaries. Their biographies appear in biographical evaluation (rijal) books, which study how reliable narrators are. The main rijal works include Ikhtiar Marifat al-Rijal, Fehrist Asma' Musannifi al-Shia, and Moe'jamo Rijal el-Hadith, among others. Scholars categorize narrators by the time of their death.

Books of Shia Rijal (main sources)
- Ikhtiar Marifat al-Rijal (Kashshi)
- Fehrist Asma' Musannifi al-Shia (Najashi)
- Rijal of Shaykh Tusi (Shaykh Tusi)
- Al-Fihrist (Shaykh Tusi)
- Rijal (Ibn al-Qazaeri)
- Tabaqat ol-Rijal (Barqi)
- Mashyakhah of Tahdhib (Shaykh Tusi)
- Mashyakhah of Faqih (Ibn Babawayh)
- Rasalah (Abu Qaleb Zorari)

Secondary principles
- Rijal (Ibn Davoud)
- Khulasat al-Aqwal (Allamah Al-Hilli)
- Fehrest Sheikh Montakhab ol-Din (Sheikh Montakhab ol-Din)
- Ma'alem ol-Olama (Ibn Shahr Ashub)

Comprehensives in Rijal (big collections)
- Majma ol-Rijal (Enayatollah Qohpayi)
- Rijale Kabir (Estarabadi)
- Naqd ol-Rijal (Tafreshi)
- Jame ol-Rowat (Ardabili)
- Tanqih al-Maqal (Mamaqani)
- Qamus al-Rijal (book) (Mohammad-Taqi Shoushtari)
- Tabaghat Aa'lam Al-Shia (Agha Bozorg Tehrani)
- Moe'jamo Rijal el-Hadith (Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei) — eight books in this collection

What these works do
Shia hadith scholars are those who quoted Hadith from Imams, and their lives and reliability are recorded in rijal books. The lists and classifications come from the time of each narrator’s death.

Century-based grouping
- 1st century AH (622 CE – 719 CE)
- 2nd century AH (719 CE – 816 CE): notable Imams Muhammad al-Baqir (the fifth Imam) and Ja'far al-Sadiq (the sixth Imam and founder of the Ja’fari school)
- 3rd century AH (816 CE – 913 CE)
- 4th century AH (913 CE – 1009 CE)