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Kulayn

كلين

A village 38 km south-west of Rayy in the Pashapuya district; its Persian name Kolen was arabicised with imala as Kulayn and Kulin, the nisba of al-Kulayni 1.

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Era
The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region
Persia & Central Asia

Summary

A village 38 km south-west of Rayy in the Pashapuya district; its Persian name Kolen was arabicised with imala as Kulayn and Kulin 1.

The nisba

It gave the nisba of Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni, which appears in the sources as al-Kulayni, al-Kulini, and erroneously al-Kalini 1.

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Birthplace of
Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni

People and things also explored

Death of al-Kulayni at Baghdad, Sha'ban 329/May 941· al-Kulayni completes al-Kafi at Baghdad, about 328/940· al-Kulayni moves to Baghdad, about the first decade of the fourth century· al-Kulayni, shaykh of the Imamiyya at Rayy, about the second decade of the fourth century· al-Kulayni's studies at Qumm, last decade of the third century· The Ja'fari school· Baghdad· al-Kafi fi 'Ilm al-Din

Sources

  1. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 5 p. 400-401
  • Wikidata
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Death of al-Kulayni at Baghdad, Sha'ban 329/May 941

al-Kulayni died at Baghdad in 328/939-40 or 329/940-41; the EI2 prefers the latter, since al-Tusi — having given 328 in his earlier Fihrist — specifies Sha'ban 329/May 941 in his later Rijal. The funeral prayer was led by the Imami Hasanid Abu Qirat Muhammad ibn Ja'far, and he was buried near the Bab al-Kufa. Tarikh al-Islam lists him under 329: 'he was at Baghdad and died there, and his tomb is visible with a tablet over it'; Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Saymari transmitted from him.