Introduction

The name of Hazrat Suhaib’s (ra) father was Sinan bin Malik and his mother’s name was Salama bint Qaeed. Hazrat Suhaib(ra) was from Mosul.

Hazrat Suhaib’s father, or his uncle, was the governor of Ubullah for the Chosroes. Ubullah is a city on the banks of the Tigris River, which later came to be known as Basra. The Romans attacked that region and took Hazrat Suhaib (ra) as a prisoner when he was a child.

According to Abul Qasim al-Maghrabi, Hazrat Suhaib’s (ra) actual name was Umairah, but the Romans named him “Suhaib”.

(al-Tabaqaat-ul-Kubra li ibn Sa‘d, Vol. 3, pp. 169-170, Suhaib bin Sinaan, Dar-ul-Kutub al-Ilmiyyah, Beirut, 2017) (al-Isabah Fi Tamyeez al-Sahabah, Vol. 4, pp. 33-34, Suhaib bin Sinaan, Dar-ul-Fikr, Beirut, 2001) (Mu‘jamul Buldan, Vol. 1, p. 99, Dar-ul-Kutub al-Ilmiyyah, Beirut)