Imam Muhammad Ibn Sulayman Ibn Dawud
Imam Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd
Peace Be Upon Him
Imam Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān ibn Dāwūd ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan al-Sibt (peace be upon them). This Imam is the maternal grandfather of al-Hādī ilā al-Ḥaqq Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥusayn (peace be upon them).
He (peace be upon him) was with Imam Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm (peace be upon them) during the days of his caliphate, and he ruled Medina and its environs. He died after the death of Imam Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq, at the age of sixty years.
As the maternal grandfather of Imam al-Hādī ilā al-Ḥaqq Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥusayn (peace be upon them) — the founder of the Zaydī Imamate in Yemen — this Imam occupies a distinguished place in the genealogical chain connecting the Yemeni Imāmate to the sons of al-Ḥasan al-Sibt.
- Ibrāhīm grandfather of Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Ḥasanī — see footnote
- Isḥāq
- Mūsā
- Al-Ḥasan
- Sulaymān
- Dāwūd
Regarding Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān — his being among the children of this Imam is established and attested in multiple sources:1
- Al-Shāfī
- Maṭlaʿ al-Budūr
- Sharḥ al-Dāmigha
- Ṭabaqāt al-Zaydiyya
- The Ijāzas (licenses) of al-Musawwarī
- The margin of ʿUmdat al-Ṭālib
Scholarly References & Annotations
It is established that among his children was Ibrāhīm — as stated in Al-Shāfī, Maṭlaʿ al-Budūr, Sharḥ al-Dāmigha, Ṭabaqāt al-Zaydiyya, the ijāzas of al-Musawwarī, and the margin of ʿUmdat al-Ṭālib — and he is the grandfather of Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Ḥasanī, mentioned hereafter; so this is to be relied upon — noted by the Author (peace be upon him).