Defending bibi narjis(sa)

Ithbāt al-Waṣiyya:- Page 276

We read in al-Mufid min Mu'jam rijal al-Hadith, p. 86:

بشر بن سلمان : النخاس ، من ولد أبي أيوب الانصاري - مجهول - روى عن أبي الحسن العسكري (ع) ، كمال الدين و هي دالة على وثاقته الا انها ضعيفة ، و هو راويها.

Bishr ibn Sulaymān: The nakhkhās (slave trader), a descendant of Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī unknown (majhūl). He narrated from Abū al-Ḥasan al-ʿAskarī (peace be upon him). The narration appears in Kamal al-Din and indicates his trustworthiness, yet the report itself is weak, and he is its sole transmitter.

We read in al-Mufid min Mu'jam rijal al-Hadith, p. 504:

محمد بن بحر الرهني : « الدهني » أبو الحسين الشيباني من الغلاة - مجهول - روى في الفقيه بعنوان محمد بن بحر - طريق الشيخ اليه ضعيف ـ عنونه الشيخ محمد بن بحر الرهني » - لم يعهد رواية أبي العباس عنه بلاواسطة ..

Muḥammad ibn Baḥr al-Ruhani (“al-Duhani”), Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Shaybānī: One of the ghulāt, unknown (majhūl). He was narrated from in al-Fiqh (Man lā yaḥḍuruhu al-Faqīh) under the name Muḥammad ibn Baḥr; the Shaykh’s chain of transmission to him is weak. The Shaykh listed him as Muḥammad ibn Baḥr al-Ruhani. It is not known (lam yuʿhad) that Abū al-ʿAbbās ever narrated from him without an intermediary.

We read in Mustadrak 'Ilm al-Hadith, vol. 1, p. 331:

١٠٥٧ - أحمد بن طاهر القمي: لم يذكروه . وقع في طريق الصدوق في كمال الدين ج ۲ باب ٤١ ص ٤١٧ ح ١ عن أحمد بن عيسى الوشاء ، عنه ، عن أبي الحسين محمد بن بحر الشيباني ، رواية ميلاد الحجة ( صلوات الله عليه ) ، جدج ٥١ ص ۱۰ ، وفيه محمد بن يحيى الشيباني ومثله كمباج ۱۳ ص ۱ .

1057 – Aḥmad ibn Ṭāhir al-Qummī: He has not been mentioned [by the biographers].He appears in the transmission chain of al-Ṣadūq in Kamal al-Din, vol. 2, chapter 41, p. 417, ḥadīth no. 1 — from Aḥmad ibn ʿĪsā al-Washshāʾ, from him, from Abū al-Ḥusayn Muḥammad ibn Baḥr al-Shaybānī — in the narration of the birth of the Ḥujjah (peace be upon him). [It also appears] in Jalāʾ al-ʿUyūn, vol. 5, p. 10, and there it includes Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Shaybānī; similarly in Kamal al-Bajāʾ, vol. 13, p. 1.

We read in Mustadrak 'Ilm al-Hadith, vol. 1, p. 397:

۱۳۳۳ أحمد بن عيسى الوشاء البغدادي أبو العباس : لم يذكروه ، روى الصدوق في كمال الدين ج ۲ باب ٤٣ ص ٤٥٤ ، عن محمد بن علي بن محمد بن حاتم النوفلي الكرماني ، عنه ، عن أحمد بن طاهر القمي حديث سعد بن عبد الله ومسائله المفصلة ، عن الحجـة المنتــظر ( صلوات الله عليه ) ، وتقدم في أحمد بن طاهر مواضع الحديث

1333. Aḥmad ibn ʿĪsā al-Washshāʾ al-Baghdādī, Abū al-ʿAbbās: He has not been mentioned [by the biographers . Al-Ṣadūq narrated in Kamal al-Din, vol. 2, chapter 43, p. 454, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥātim al-Nawfalī al-Kirmanī, from him, from Aḥmad ibn Ṭāhir al-Qummī, the narration of Saʿd ibn ʿAbd Allāh and his detailed questions to the Awaited Ḥujjah (peace be upon him). The locations of this narration have been mentioned earlier under Aḥmad ibn Ṭāhir.

We read in al-Mufid min Mu'jam rijal al-Hadith, p. 556:

محمد بن علي بن محمد بن حاتم النوفلي من مشايخ الصدوق، كمال الدين - وصفه بالنوفلي و كناه بأبي بكر في مورد و وصفه في مورد آخر بالنوفلي المعروف بالكرماني - مجهول ..

Muhammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥātim al-Nawfalī, one of Shaykh al-Ṣadūq’s teachers. In Kamal al-Din, he described him as al-Nawfalī and gave him the kunya Abū Bakr in one instance, and in another instance described him as al-Nawfalī known as al-Kirmanī. He is unknown (majhūl).

ikhtiyaar marifatul rijal p 147,148:
Muhammad bin Bahr, this man was Ghali.
This hadith has been fabricated and its truth has been altered.

The hadith they often quote is the very long one from Kamal al-Deen where it mentions the story of how a companion of the Imam travelled to buy Narjis, who was a slave by then