Sulaym ibn Qays

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 secular western academics and Sunni scholarship.^[1]

Muhammad's era (610-632)

Sulaym is said to have been born in Kufa and came to Medinah but was not able to see Muhammad. He became a partisan of Ali, together with Abu Dharr and Salman the Persian. Sulaym is said to have written down what he learned and experienced with Ali, and his writing eventually became The book of Sulaym ibn Qays.

Muawiyah's era (661–680)

The factual accuracy of part of this article is disputed. The dispute is about colliding sources regarding Aban promising to not show the book . Please see the relevant discussion on the talk page.

After Ali died, during Muawiyahs era, Sulaym allegedly fled to Persia with his writings and there 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.

He died in 70 AH.^[2]

References

1. ^ http://www.hurqalya.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/BIBLIOGRAPHY-HYP/08A-SHI%60ISM/IMAMOLOGY.htm
2. ^ http://www.alseraj.net/maktaba/kotob/english/historyofislam/Sulhal-Hasan/sulh/24.htm

External links

• http://www.yildun.com/data/hadiths/sermon/had208.html

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