ʿAbd Allāh b. Muskān, Abū Muḥammad (d. prior to 183/799), transmitted ḥadīths of the seventh Shiʿi Imam, Mūsā b. Jaʿfar al-Kāẓim. He lived in Kūfa and was a mawlā (client) of the tribe of ʿAnaza, although another report states that he was from the tribe of ʿIjl (see al-Kharsān, 58; al-Najāshī, 214). Very little is known of his life. There is some disagreement over whether he was also one of the companions of Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad al-Ṣādiq. According to al-ʿAyyāshī, as related from Yūnus b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, a companion of Mūsā …