Abū Sulaymān al-Dārānī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Aḥmad b. ʿAṭiyya al-ʿAnasī al-Dārānī, was a Sufi sage of the 2nd–3rd/8th–9th century. Some called him ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAṭiyya, associating him with his grandfather (al-Sulamī, 68; Anṣārī, 39). He was called al-ʿAnasī due to his connection with the Banū ʿAnas b. Mālik, a tribe from Yemen (al-Samʿānī, 9/395; Ibn Khallikān, 3/131). He was born around 140/757 (al-Dhahabī, 10/182). He was born in a village in Damascus called Dāriyā (al-Khawlānī, 107; al-Sulamī, 68; Abū Nuʿaym, 9/254), and hence he was known as al-Dārānī, even though this nisba is …