Sahl ibn Ḥunayf ( ar, سهل بن حنيف) was one of the
Companions of the Islamic prophet
Muhammad. He is said to have narrated about forty
hadiths from Muhammad.
When Muhammad's cousin
Ali ibn Abi Talib
ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ( ar, عَلِيّ بْن أَبِي طَالِب; 600 – 661 CE) was the last of four Rightly Guided Caliphs to rule Islam (r. 656 – 661) immediately after the death of Muhammad, and he was the first Shia Imam. ...
arrived in
Medina after the migration (
) from
Mecca in 622, Muhammad established fraternal ties between Ali and Sahl ibn Hunayf.
References
Sahabah hadith narrators
Rashidun governors of Medina
Rashidun governors of Fars
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