Sulaymān b. Mihrān al-Aʿmash (d. 147 or 148/764-5) was an important transmitter of Prophetic traditions in Kufa. He was the most outstanding among the common links of ḥadīth (Ar. madār , lit., "pivot"; for this term and a few other technical ḥadīth terms, such as bundle, dive, (partial) com-mon link, etc., used in the following, see G. H. A. Juynboll, (Re)appraisal of some technical terms in ḥadīth science, ILS 8 (2001) 310ff.). Born in 59/679 or 61/681, he was brought as a captive from