Sulayman bin Hassan was the 27th Da'i al-Mutlaq of Ismailism according to the Sulaymanis. His claim to the position was contested, leading to a split in the Bohra community between the Sulyamanis, who accepted his claim, and the Dawoodi Bohras, who accepted Syedna Dawood Bin Qutubshah's claim instead.
The Sulaymanis believed he became a Da'i as per the "Nass" of Syedna Dawood Bin Ajabshah while those who did not accept this (primarily in India and elsewhere in Arab lands) were called Dawoodi Bohras.
He was born to Hasan bin Yusuf Najmuddin ibn Sulaiman and mother Zainab binte Moosa, niece of Syedna Yusuf on the 6th of Shawwal 961 AH, 13 September 1554 AD, in Qasr-e-Sa'daan, Qila-e-Tayba of Qabeela-e-Hamadaan, the city of Sana'a in Today's north Yemen.
Syedna Malik Sulayman ji bin Hassan in the history of the Imāmī-Tāyyībī-Mustā‘līan Makramis
{| class="" style="float:center; margin: 2ex 0 0.6em 0.5em; width: 8em; line-height:111%;" !The schematic history of the development of the Ismā'īlī-Imāmī-Mustā‘lī-Makramis under the authority of Da'i al-Mutlaq Sulayman bin Hassan from other Shī‘ah Muslim sects
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