Abu Jafar ibn Jarir al-Tabari, "Biographies of the Prophet's Companions and Their Successors".
Translated as an appendix to his History, v. 39, by Ella
Landau-Tasseron (SUNY Press, 1998), 258. Ayyub had died by 748 so Sufyan
must have moved prior to then.
Angeliki E. Laiou, et al. (2001). The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World. p. 23.
Andrew Rippin, “al-Zuhri, naskh al-Qur’an and the Problem of Early Tafsir Texts”, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies,
47 (1984), 22–43; this ancient and slightly corrupted document has
Thawri's name in the isnad.
Angeliki E. Laiou, et al. (2001). The Crusades from the Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World. p. 23.
Fihrist, 225; Abu Nu'aym, V1. 356-93, VH. 3-144; EI, 1v. 500-2.
Michael Cook. (2003). Forbidding Wrong in Islam: An Introduction. p. 77. The 'Abbasid rebellion had begun 747 CE, and ended with their victory 750. The coastal metaphor implies a setting in Basra, and besides the Umayyads would hardly have offered a position to a twenty-something Shi'ite.
Muhammad Qasim Zaman. (1997). Religion and Politics Under the Early 'Abbasids: The Emergence of the Proto-Sunni Elite. p. 79.
