Abu Muhammad Sulayman ibn Mihran al-Asadi al-Kahili (680764/65) (سليمان بن مهران) also known as al-Amash (الأعمش) was a Muslim scholar of the generation of Tabi'un. He was a notable muhaddith and qāriʾ. Due to his poor eyesight, people used to call him al-Amash.
Biography Al-A'mash was born in Kufa in 680 (61 AH). He was a freedman of the Kahil clan from the Banu Assad tribe. His father had moved to Kufa from Damavand, Iran.
Al-A’mash died in 764 (147 AH) in Kufa, but most historians say that he died in the month of Rabi al-Awwal 765 (148 AH).
His notable students include Abu Hanifa, Abdullah Ibn al-Mubarak, Sufyan al-Thawri, Sufyan ibn ʽUyaynah and Al-Fuḍayl ibn ʻIyāḍ.
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