Narrator

سليمان بن عبد الله

Sulaymān b. ʿAbdullāh

Sulaymān b. ʿAbdullāh kept company with al-Ṣādiq (ʿa) and was of al-Daylam. Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ weakens him.

on Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ alone, whose ascription is disputed

When he lived

The Prophet, then the twelve Imams in order in gold: al-Ṣādiq (ʿa)

From al-Daylam Written about in 4 books, 4 entries

In this collection

8 narrations 38% of them in Al-Amālī

Counted from the narrations and chains this database holds — not a record of everything he transmitted.

Tarājim — his notice in each book

Rijāl al-Ṭūsī

Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (d. 460) p. 215

Entry no. 2847

Edition: ed. Jawād al-Qayyūmī al-Iṣfahānī, 1st edition, Ramaḍān 1415 AH

سليمان بن عبد الله، أبو العلاء الغنوي الكوفي.

Listed under al-Ṣādiq (ʿa)

Kitāb al-Ḍuʿafāʾ

Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Ghaḍāʾirī (5th c.) very weak

سليمان بن عبد الله

The ascription of this book to Ibn al-Ghaḍāʾirī is disputed; al-Khoei held it unproven («الكتاب المنسوب إلى ابن الغضائري… لم يثبت»).

ليس بشيء.

He is nothing.

Listed under al-Ṣādiq (ʿa)

Jāmiʿ al-Ruwāt

Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ardabīlī (d. 1101) p. 381
سليمان بن عبد الله أبو العلاء الغنوي الكوفي [ق]

Muʿjam Rijāl al-Ḥadīth

Abū al-Qāsim al-Khoei (d. 1413) p. 284

Vol. 9 Entry no. 5478

Edition: 5th edition, 1413 AH / 1992 CE; editor and publisher not stated in the source

سليمان بن عبد الله أبو العلاء: الغنوي: تقدم في سلمان.

Also named

  • الغنوي
  • سليمان بن عبد الله
  • سليمان بن عبد الله أبو العلاء
  • سليمان بن عبد الله أبو العلاء الغنوي الكوفي
  • سليمان بن عبد الله، الديلمي
The same names, transliterated
  • Sulaymān b. ʿAbdullāh, al-Daylamī
  • al-Ghanawi
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Assembled from 4 entries and 1 mentions in the chains. Every word above is quoted from the book named beside it, and none of it is our judgement of him.