Among those who narrated from him were al-Dāraqutnī, Yūsuf al-Qawwās, Ibn Jumayʿ, Ibrāhīm ibn Makhlad, Hilāl al-Ḥaffār, Abū ʿUmar al-Hāshimī, and a number of others.
Al-Qawwās pronounced him trustworthy (1). He was a dedicated man of hadith. He died in Baghdad in Jumādā al-Ākhirah 334 AH. The entire fascicle collected by al-Ḥaffār is on his authority.
159 – The Qarmaṭī Abū Ṭāhir Sulaymān ibn Ḥasan *
The enemy of Allah, ruler of Bahrain: Abū Ṭāhir Sulaymān ibn Ḥasan the Qarmaṭī (2), al-Jannābī (3), the Bedouin heretic who marched on Mecca with seven hundred horsemen, ravaged every pilgrim in the Sacred Precinct, uprooted the Black Stone, choked the Well of Zamzam with the slain, and climbed the threshold of the Kaʿbah, crying out:
I am—by Allah, and through Allah, I am;
I create creation, and I annihilate them, I!
(1) Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Tarikh Baghdad, vol. 8, p. 148.
(*) Additional sources on the same episode: Abu Muhammad al-Jannabi, Tarikh Akhbar al-Qaramita, p. 36 ff.; Ibn al-Jawzi, Al-Muntazam, vol. 6, p. 336; Ibn al-Athir, Al-Kamil, vol. 8, p. 143 ff.; Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-Ayan, vol. 2, pp. 148-150; al-Dhahabi, Al-Ibar, vol. 2, pp. 167-168; al-Safadi, Al-Wafi bi-l-Wafayat, vol. 15, pp. 363-366; al-Yafi‘i, Mirat al-Jinan, vol. 2, pp. 271-273; Ibn Kathir, Al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya, vol. 11, pp. 208-209; Ibn Khaldun, Tarikh Ibn Khaldun, vol. 3, pp. 377-379; Ibn Taghribirdi, Al-Nujum al-Zahira, vol. 3, pp. 224, 281; Ibn Imad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, vol. 2, pp. 331-332.
(2) The adjective derives from Hamdan Qarmat, the first to spread the Qarmati doctrine; see al-Sam‘ani, Al-Ansab, vol. 10, p. 108.
(3) This nisba points to Janaya, a town in the province of Fars that borders Bahrain near Siraf; because the Qarmatis originated there, they were known by this name. See Ibn Khallikan, Wafayat al-Ayan, vol. 2, p. 150.