Sulaym ibn Qays

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Name:	Abu Sadiq Sulaym ibn Qays Halali Ameri Kufi
Title:	Sulaym ibn Qays
Birth:
Death:	76 AH (695)
Ethnicity:	Arab
Region:	Hijaz, Iraq and Fars
Maddhab:	Shia
Main interests:	Hadith and History of Islam
Works:	The book of Sulaym ibn Qays
Influences:	Ali, Salman the Persian, Miqdad and Abu Dharr al-Ghifari
Influenced:	Aban ibn abi-Ayyash

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1st millennium AH

1st century AH: (622 – 719 CE) Ubay ibn Ka'b (d. 22) Umar (-40 – 23) Ibn Mas'ud (d. 32) Ka'ab al-Ahbar (d. 32) Wahb ibn Munabbih (d. 34) Ali (-23 – 40) Abdullah ibn Salam (d. 43) Ahmad ibn Tawoos (d. 53?) Abu Hurairah (d. 57) Masruq ibn al-Ajda' (d. 62?) Alqama ibn Qays (d. 62?) Ibn Abbas (-3 – 68) Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali (-16 – 69) Sulaym ibn Qays (d. 70) Ibn Umar (-8? – 74) Aswad ibn Yazid (d. 75) Ma'bad al-Juhani (d. 80) Sahl ibn Sa'd (d. 91) Urwah ibn Zubayr (d. 94) Said ibn Al-Musayyib (d. 94) Raja ibn Haywah Ali ibn Abi Talha Uqbah ibn Amir 2nd century AH: (719 – 816 CE) 3rd century AH: (816 – 913 CE) 4th century AH: (913 – 1010 CE) 5th century AH: (1010 – 1107 CE) 6th century AH: (1107 – 1204 CE) 7th century AH: (1204 – 1301 CE) 8th century AH: (1301 – 1398 CE) 9th century AH: (1398 – 1495 CE) 10th century AH: (1495 – 1592 CE)

2nd millennium AH

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Sulaym Ibn Qays (Arabic: سليم بن قيس‎) was one of the purported Companions of Ali but he "is widely considered an anti-Umayyad polemical invention" by Sunni scholarship. He has a well-known book known as The book of Sulaym ibn Qays. As Ibn al-Nadim says and later investigation shows his book is "the oldest surviving Shi`ite book" which is written in the first Islamic century. ^[1][2]

Contents 1 Biography 2 Footnotes 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Biography

Sulaym is said to have been born near the place where Kufa was built later. He came to Medinah when Umar was caliph and couldn't see Muhammad. He became a partisan of Ali, together with Abu Dharr and Salman the Persian. Sulaym have written down what he learned and experienced with Ali, and his writing eventually became The book of Sulaym ibn Qays.^[2]

After Ali died, during Muawiyah era, Sulaym remained in Kufa. He gathered some information such as Muawiyah sermon in the mosque of Kufa. ^[2][3]

When Hajjaj ibn Yusuf became the governor of Kufa, he fled to Persia with his writings in 694. He stayed in Nobandegan. There he found a fifteen years old boy, Aban ibn abi-Ayyash. He became rather fond of him abd started to educate him and Aban eventually also became a Shi'a. Eventually, Sulaym entrusted all of his writings to Aban, after Aban had made a solemn oath not to talk of any of the writings during Sulaym’s lifetime and that after his death he would give the book only to trustworthy Shi'a of Ali.^[2]

He died in 70 AH(689).^[4] or 76 AH(695)^[2]

[edit] Footnotes

1. ^ Imamology
2. ^ ^{a b c d e} (preface of The book of Sulaym)
3. ^ Sulh al-Hasan
4. ^ Sulh al-Hasan

[edit] References

• Preface of The book of Sulaym by Ismael Ansari Zanjani (in Persian)

[edit] External links

• The book of Sulaym ibn Qays
• Sources of Nahj al Balaghah

v • d • e List of Ali's companions     Abu Dharr al-Ghifari Ammar ibn Yasir Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr Abdullah ibn Budayl Asbagh ibn Nubatah Uways al-Qarni Uthman ibn Hunaif Sulaym ibn Qays Khuzayma ibn Thabit Malik al-Ashtar Sa'sa'ah ibn Suhan Meesam Tammar al-Harith al-A'war al-Hamdani `Abd Allah ibn `Abbas Mikhnaf ibn Sulaym Hamam ibn Shurayh Miqdad ibn Aswad Habib ibn Mazahir Zayd ibn Suhan Adi ibn Hatim Amr ibn al-Humq al-Khaza'i Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali Sulayman ibn Surad Abu al-Heysam ibn Tayyahan Salman the Persian Kumayl ibn Ziyad Hisham ibn 'Utbah Hujr ibn Adi Abdullah ibn Hashim Qays ibn Sa'd Jundab ibn Abdullah Umm Salamah