Investigating the Attribution of a Group of Documents from the Manuscript of Sulaym's Book to Ibn Shahrāshūb

Subject Areas : Quarterly Journal of Research for the Studies of the Ahl al-Bayt

kazem ostadi ¹ (Researcher of Quran and Hadith Studies, University of Quran and Hadith, Qom, Iran.)

Received: 2023-05-07 Accepted : 2023-07-14 Published : 2023-05-22

Keywords: The book of Sulaym, Sulaym ibn Qays, Ibn Shahrāshūb, Ibn Turugh Shahrāshūb,

Abstract :

For a long time, there have been controversies surrounding the historical identity and personality of Sulaym ibn Qays, as well as the validity of the "Book of Sulaym" in Shiite sources. Apart from the content review of Sulaym's current book, the review of the documents of the manuscripts of this book can also be important for validating the work. Most of the manuscripts of Sulaym's current book are without a document, and most of the copies that have a document end with "Iban related from Muʿammar ibn Rāshid". But in the meantime, a few limited manuscripts have at the beginning the documents of Sheikh Tusi and Ibn Shahrāshūb, whose document ends with "Ibān quoted from Umar ibn Udhaynah". Considering the existence of ambiguities in the authenticity of Sulaym's book and the difference between its current manuscripts, the question arises as to whether the documents attributed to Ibn Shahrāshūb for these versions are authentic and unaltered or not? In this article, by presenting the reasons and clues that exist from the works of Ibn Shahrāshūb and the sources of his predecessors, it will be explained that the documents in a manuscript model of Sulaym's book attributed to Ibn Shahrāshūb are new and unoriginal; that is, some people added it in a fake form in their copies of the book attributed to Sulaym.