Al-A'mash
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
al-Aʻmash · Sulaymān ibn Mihrān · الأعمش · الاعمش
in the texts
Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab
The Kufan traditionist named among those who received from the Successors and taught the masters of the next tier.
From them such men as Masrūq, Ibn al-Musayyab, al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, al-Shaʻbī and ʻUrwah carried it, and their like among the people of hadith, the masters of transmission and of understanding, of truthfulness and worship, of exactness and abstinence — those whose students were such men as al-Zuhrī, Qatādah, al-Aʻmash, Ibn Juḥādah, Ayyūb and Ibn ʻAwn;
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
Man who reported being taken for mad by his family after long thinking.
) and al-Aʻmash told me that he thought over a problem until his family denied he was in his right mind, so that they confined him and treated him;
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
Qurʼān reader whose variant reading is adduced to show the verse addresses the Jews.
and the reading of al-Aʻmash, on the transmission of Ibn Masʻūd, is ( and they have been given but little knowledge ) (2).