al-Kūfī, Muḥammad b. Sulaymān - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Haider, Najam I.
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Muḥammad b. Sulaymān al-Kūfī (d. early fourth/tenth century) was a prominent Zaydī scholar of Kufan origin who migrated to Yemen after al-Hādī ilā l-Ḥaqq Yaḥyā b. al-Ḥusayn's (r. 284-98/897-911) establishment of a Zaydī Imāmate in Ṣaʿda in 284/897. His life was representative a generation of scholars who came from distant parts of the Muslim world and helped establish Zaydī Shīʿism in the highlands of northern Yemen (Maḥmūdī, 5; ʿIzzān, 5). Born in Kufa in the middle of the third/ninth