The Book of Sulaym ibn Qays

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Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal — 780-855 Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah — 923 Sahih Ibn Hibbaan — 965 Al-Mustadrak alaa al-Sahihain — 1014 Mawdu'at al-Kubra— 1128-1217 Riyadh as-Saaliheen — 1233 - 1278 Talkhis al-Mustadrak — 1274-1348 Majma al-Zawa'id — 1335-1405 Bulugh al-Maram — 1372-1449 Kanz al-Ummal — 1500th Da'if al-Tirmidhi — 20th century Sahih al-Tirmidhi — 20th century
Shi'a collections
The book of Sulaym ibn Qays — 600th Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya — 678-713 Bihar al-Anwar — 1600s Haqq al-Yaqeen — 1600s Sharh Usul al-Kafi — ?-1081 Jesus through Shiite Narrations — ?
Mu'tazili collections
Nahj with comments — ?-1258

The Book of Sulaym ibn Qays is a Hadith collections, collected by Sulaym ibn Qays who entrusted it to Aban ibn abi-Ayyash. It is a collection of hadith from 1st Century of the Islamic calendar. It was well-known among early Shia hadith narrators.

According to the Shi'a, the book "has received endorsement from five Infallible Imams." The author researched and verified events before he penned them so that their authenticity is incontrovertible. The book was entrusted to only one person, Aban ibni abi Ayyash who was held to a solemn oath not to talk of the book during Sulaym’s lifetime and that after his death he would give the book only to trustworthy Shi’a..."^[1]

There is no doubt about the authenticity of the book itself among the shi'a scholars. The author is also regarded as a trustworthy narrator. The book has been mentioned both in the four main collections of Shi'a hadith. Ibn Al-Nadim the famous 10th Century (A.D.) book publisher has said that the book is among the well known books of the Shi'a.(Al-Fihrist, p.275 in chapter titled, "Al-Fan Al-Khamis Min Al-Maqalaht Al-Saadesah"). No'mani has mentioned the book and the author in his book, Al-Ghaibah. Shaikh Tusi (d. 465A.H.) owned a copy of the book and has verified the authenticity of the book and the trustworthyness of the author.(Al-Fihrist Al-Tusi, P.81, Number 336). In fact, the book is so well known among the Shi'a that most books of hadith and rijal (commentray on the life and trustworthyness of the hadith narrators) have regarded both the book and its author with high regards. Many renowned Sunni traditionalists have also quoted ahadith from Sulaym Ibn Qays.

Currently, numerous manuscripts of this book exist.

1 Content
2 Editions
3 See also
4 References

[edit] Content

The Prophet said: "There never has been a nation which made someone its leader while there was a more learned person in its midst, but that it underwent steady decline, unless that it corrected its mistake". ^[2]

[edit] Editions

An Arabic edition, 3 volume, 1 volume about the book, 1 about the book itself, and the last being commentaries.
A Persian version, "Asrar-e ale Muhammad", one book.
An English version tranalted by Sheikh Salman Reginald Tawhidi ^[3]