There was a dispute between him and another man. The latter lunged at Sulaymān and jabbed him in the stomach, whereupon the man’s hand instantly withered.(1)

Muʿtamir ibn Sulaymān related: When my father was on his death-bed he said to me, “Muʿtamir, recount to me the reports that speak of rukhaṣ (legal dispensations), so that I may meet Allah, Exalted is He, while entertaining good expectations of Him.”

Al-Aṣmaʿī said: I was walking with Muʿtamir when he told me, “Stay where you are.” He then added, “My father used to say: When you write my name, do not write ‘al-Taymī’ and do not write ‘al-Murrī’. My father had been a contractual slave (mukātab) of Bujayr ibn Ḥumrān, and my mother was a client-woman of Banū Sulaym. If he paid off the contract and thus gained the client-alliance of Banū Murrah—Murrah being Murrah ibn ʿAbbād ibn Ḍubayʿah ibn Qays—then write ‘al-Qaysī’. Should it be that the contract and the client-alliance remained with Banū Sulaym—who themselves descend from Qays ʿAylān—then likewise write ‘al-Qaysī’.”

It is reported from Sulaymān al-Taymī that he would sometimes renew his ablution at night even though he had not slept.

Jarīr ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd mentioned that never did an hour pass over Sulaymān al-Taymī without his giving something in charity; and if he had nothing to give, he would offer two units of prayer instead.

I read before Isḥāq ibn Ṭāriq, who informed us; Yūsuf ibn Khalīl informed us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Taymī informed us; Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād informed us; Abū Nuʿaym narrated to us, saying: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad told us; Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn told us; Aḥmad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Dawraqī told us; al-Anṣārī narrated:
“Throughout most of his life al-Taymī would perform both the nightfall (ʿishāʾ) and the dawn (ṣubḥ) prayers with a single ablution. From after the late-afternoon prayer until sunset he would busy himself with glorification, and he fasted unceasingly.”
This is what he said, though the report more widely known is that he used to fast every other day.

With this same chain al-Dawraqī said: ʿAbbās ibn al-Walīd narrated to me from Yaḥyā al-Qaṭṭān, who said: “Sulaymān al-Taymī once set out for Mecca, and during that journey he would perform the dawn prayer with the ablution he had made for the final night prayer.”