It’s a famous book of Sulaym...

It’s a famous book of Sulaym, which does not give reference to any other book but directly narrates from Amir-ul-Momineen -asws and his -asws pious companions. Dream of Aban -ra : Ummar ibn Azina says, once Abaan ibn abi Ayash called for me and when I turned up he narrated to me the following: ‘I have been informed in my dream that I will soon be leaving this world, so I am very pleased to see you, last night Sulaym ibn Qays came into my dream, and said, O Abaan!

You are about to exit this mortal world, fear Allah about the my work (book) which I have entrusted to you and do not waste it, fulfil your promise of keeping it hidden from the others but passing it onto the shias of Amir-ul-momineen -asws , the shia which you entrust this book with should be pious and from good linage. Abaan then continued telling me about Sulaym ibn Qays, that when Hajjaj came to Iraq, he started enquiring about Sulaym ibn Qays, as he had a burning desire of killing him.

Sulaym after finding it out slipped away from there and discreetly came to us in Nobandjan and resided with us at my house. Abaan says I have not seen anyone more devout and knowledgeable, fearing Allah, disliking fame; I was, at that time, only fourteen years of age. I learnt the Holy Quran from Sulaym and I used to ask him about various religious matters and he would narrate to me the Ahadith from the companions of the warriors of ‘Badr’.

He narrated to me Ahadith from Salama ibn Umme Salama sa the wife of the Holy Prophet -saww , Muaz ibn Jabal, Salman Farasi, Amir-ul-Momineen -asws , Abu Dharr, Miqdad, Ammar and Bara ibn Azab. He then put those Ahadith away without taking any commitment from me but then near his death time, he called me and said: O Abaan! I have stayed with you, and have not seen those things in you, which I really abhor.

I have a book containing Ahadith which I have heard from most trustworthy narrators and I have written those down with my own hand, I do not want to reveal those Ahadith to the public as they will find those extremely strange and refute them, although those are just, I have directly heard those from just and pious ones, including Amir-ul-Momineen -asws , Salman Farsi -ra , Abu Dharr Ghafari -ra , Miqdad ibn Aswad -ra .

There is not a single Hadith in this compilation, which I after listening from one, has not ratified from the other one. All of them have agreed with those accounts.