Sulaiman al-Aʽmash

Abu Muhammad Sulaiman ibn Mihran al-Asadi al-Kahili (680 – 764/65) (سليمان بن مهران) also known as al-Aʽmash(الأعمش) was a Shia[1] Muslim scholar of the generation of Tabi'un. He was a notable Muhaddith and Qāriʾ. Due to his poor eyesight, people used to call him al-Aʽmash.[2][3]

Sulaiman al-Aʽmash
Personal
Born680
Kufa
Died764(764-00-00) (aged 83–84) or 765(765-00-00) (aged 84–85)
Kufa
ReligionShia Islam
Main interest(s)Hadith

Biography

Al-Amash was born in Kufa in 680 (61 AH).[3][4] He was a freedman of the Kahil clan from the Banu Assad tribe. His father had moved to Kufa from Damavand, Iran.[5]

Al-A’mash died in 764 (147 AH) in Kufa, but most historians say that he died in the month of Rabi al-Awwal 765 (148 AH).[2]

His notable teachers include Ja'far al-Sadiq, Anas ibn Malik,[6] Hasan al-Basri,[7] and Jabir ibn Abd Allah.[8]

His notable students include Abu Hanifa,[9] Ibn al-Mubarak, Sufyan al-Thawri, Sufyan ibn ʽUyaynah and Al-Fuḍayl ibn ʻIyāḍ.[3]


  1. "أعيان الشيعة - السيد محسن الأمين - ج ٧ - الصفحة ٣١٦". shiaonlinelibrary.com. Retrieved 2023-09-24.
  2. Al-Dhahabi. Siyar a`lam al-nubala, Volume 6. p. 226.
  3. Mufti Shabbir Ahmad Hanafi (April 2015). "Imam Sulaiman ibn Mihran al-Amash". Faqeeh (in Urdu). Sargodha: Markaz Ahlussunnah wal Jamaah. 4 (4): 38–51. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  4. "الإمام الأعمش". 19 March 2016.
  5. Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi. Ta'rikh Baghdad: The History of Baghdad, Volume 9. p. 3.
  6. "موسوعة الحديث : سليمان بن مهران". hadith.islam-db.com. Retrieved 2023-09-24.
  7. "موسوعة الحديث : سليمان بن مهران". hadith.islam-db.com. Retrieved 2023-09-24.
  8. "موسوعة الحديث : سليمان بن مهران". hadith.islam-db.com. Retrieved 2023-09-24.
  9. "فقہ اسلامی کی تدوین امام ابوحنیفہؒ".


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