Mikhnaf ibn Sulaym

Summary

Al-Mikhnaf ibn Sulaym (may God be pleased with him) al-Azdi al-Ghamidi, a Companion of the Azd of Kufa and Basra, with a hadith in the four Sunan collections via Abdullah ibn Awn from Amir ibn Abi Ramla: "We were standing with the Messenger of God ﷺ at Arafat when he said…" — the hadith of the sacrifice and the 'atira ¹.

In al-Isaba

Ibn al-Kalbi places him among the Azd of Kufa and Basra and notes that his descendants include the famous akhbari Abu Mikhnaf Lut ibn Yahya ibn Sa'id ibn Mikhnaf ibn Sulaym ¹. Al-Baghawi counts him a Companion whose hadith is in the four Sunan; al-Tirmidhi calls the Arafat hadith gharib, and al-Askari reports that his name was written with a doubled khaf while the ungeminated form was preferred ¹.

For young visitors

Al-Mikhnaf ibn Sulaym was a Companion of the Azd who transmitted one well-known hadith about the sacrifice, and is the ancestor of the historian Abu Mikhnaf Lut ibn Yahya.

Research notes

Text from the Dar al-Faysaliyya facsimile, p. 1381; the name's vocalisation (Mikhnaf/Makhnaf) follows al-Askari as quoted in the entry itself.

al-Nu'man ibn Bashir al-Ansari

A companion of the Prophet from the Ansar; he transmits the hadith 'the lawful is clear and the unlawful is clear and between them are doubtful matters', the sixth hadith of al-Nawawi's Forty, transmitted from him by al-Sha'bi and included by both Shaykhs in their Sahihs; Ibn Rajab calls it the soundest hadith of its chapter.

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al-Nu'man ibn Bashir al-Ansari