He was eleven years old during the Expedition of Tabuk. It was also said that he was nicknamed “Ḥabīb of the Byzantines” because of how often he stormed their lines in battle (1). Muʿāwiyah later appointed him governor of Armenia, and he died there in 42 AH. He dealt the enemy crippling blows (2). Further biographical notices appear in History of Damascus.

38 – Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmr ibn Ḥarām al-Salamī (ʿ)
The son of Thalabah ibn Ḥarām ibn Kaʿb ibn Ghanm ibn Kaʿb ibn Salamah—the great imam, independent jurist, and ḥāfiẓ; Companion of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ; Abū ʿAbd Allah, also known as Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, the Anṣārī, Khazrajī, Salamī, Madinan scholar-jurist.

He was among those who gave the Pledge under the Tree (Bayʿat al-Riḍwān) and was the last of the participants in the second night at ʿAqabah to pass away.

He transmitted a vast trove of knowledge from the Prophet ﷺ, and from ʿUmar, ʿAlī, Abū Bakr, Abū ʿUbaydah, Muʿādh ibn Jabal, al-Zubayr, and others.

Those who narrated from him include Ibn al-Musayyib, ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ, Sālim ibn Abī al-Jaʿd, al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥanafiyyah, Abū Jaʿfar al-Bāqir, Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir, Saʿīd ibn Mīnāʾ, Abū al-Zubayr, and Abū Sufyān