Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Eldest son of Sima Yu

Sima Bin 司馬虨

Died AD 300

Passages: 9
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Sima Bin was an Eldest son of Sima Yu. It is not yet established whether this person is the same as similarly named people in other chapters.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Daowen	道文	Daowen

Life and dates

Birth

Undated Source Attestation true · Event Consort Jiang bore Sima Bin, a son of the crown prince; no calendar date of his birth is stated.
Directly stated · Book of Jin 53, passage 17

Death

AD 300 永康元年正月
Directly stated · Book of Jin 53, passage 171

Attested activity

AD 300 永康元年正月
Directly stated · Book of Jin 53, passage 171

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Consort Jiang (蔣美人)
bore 生
Directly stated · Book of Jin 53, passage 17
Sibling of Sima Shang (司馬尚)
brother 子
Strongly inferred · Book of Jin 53, passage 170
Sibling of Sima Zang (司馬臧)
brother 子
Strongly inferred · Book of Jin 53, passage 170
Child of Sima Yu (司馬遹)
son 男
Directly stated · Book of Jin 53, passages 17, 170

Career and standing

Prince of Nanyang 南陽王
AD 300 四月 · Posthumously granted
Directly stated · Book of Jin 53, passage 172

Later references and commemoration

Posthumously enfeoffed prince of nanyang
AD 300 四月 · Retrospective reference · Reception Type retrospective · Honoree
Directly stated · Book of Jin 53, passage 172

References in the histories

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History

9 passages

Book of Jin, Chapter 53Volume 53 Biographies 23: Crown Prince Minhuai · 9 passages

太子所幸蔣美人生男，又言宜隆其賞賜，多為皇孫造玩弄之器，太子從之。 When Lady Jiang, whom the crown prince favored, bore a son, they also said rewards should be lavish and many toys fashioned for the imperial grandson; the crown prince obeyed.

茹毛飲血於三辰之下，皇天許當掃除患害，立道文為王，蔣為內主。 We shall eat raw flesh and drink blood beneath the three luminaries; High Heaven grants us leave to sweep away the scourge, enthrone Daowen as king, and install Jiang as inner mistress.

去年十二月，道文疾病困篤，父子之情，實相憐湣。 Last twelfth month Daowen became gravely ill; the affection between father and son made us deeply pity one another.

自道文病，中宮三遣左右來視，云：'天教呼汝。 Since Daowen fell ill, the empress sent attendants three times to see me, saying, "His Majesty summons you."

須臾中宮遣陳舞見語：'聞汝表陛下為道文乞王，不得王是成國耳。 Presently the empress sent Chen Wu to tell me: 'I hear you petitioned His Majesty to make Daowen a prince and were refused. A princely title means a territorial domain, after all.'

天與汝酒，當使道文差也。 His Majesty has given you wine; it should make Daowen recover.

太子三子：虨、臧、尚，並與父同幽金墉。 The crown prince had three sons—Bin, Zang, and Shang—all imprisoned with their father at Jinyong.

虨字道文，永康元年正月，薨。 Bin, courtesy name Daowen, died in the first month of Yongkang year one.

四月，追封南陽王。 In the fourth month he was posthumously enfeoffed as Prince of Nanyang.