The Second Rank of the Successors
- Abū Salamah ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAwf al-Zuhrī * (ʿ)
Son of ʿAbd ʿAwf ibn ʿAbd ibn al-Ḥārith ibn Zuhrah ibn Kilāb ibn Murrah ibn Kaʿb, a Qurashī of the clan of Zuhrah; a ḥāfiẓ, and one of the leading authorities of Madinah.
It is said that his personal name was ʿAbd Allāh; others said it was Ismāʿīl.
He was born in the mid-twenties AH.
He related only a few reports from his father, for the latter died while he was still a child.
He also narrated from: Usāmah ibn Zayd, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Salām, Abū Ayyūb, ʿĀʾishah, Umm Salamah and her daughter Zaynab, Umm Sulaym, Abū Hurayrah, Abū Usayd al-Sāʿidī, Muʿayqīb al-Dawsī, al-Mughīrah ibn Shuʿbah, Abū al-Dardāʾ—though he did not meet him—ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān, Ḥassān ibn Thābit, Thawbān, Ḥamzah ibn ʿAmr al-Aslamī, ʿUbādah ibn al-Ṣāmit (mursal), Ṭalḥah ibn ʿUbayd Allāh (likewise), Rabiʿah ibn Kaʿb, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, Ibn ʿAbbās, Ibn ʿUmar, Jābir, Zayd ibn Khālid al-Juhanī, Nāfiʿ ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥārith, and a number of Companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.
He afterwards learned from Busar ibn Saʿīd, Jaʿfar ibn ʿAmr ibn Umayyah, ʿUrwah, ʿAtāʾ ibn Yasār, and others, continuing until he even narrated from ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz.
He was a dedicated seeker of knowledge, a jurist, painstaking, of high standing, and an authoritative proof.
Those who reported from him include: his son ʿUmar ibn Abī Salamah, his nephew Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm, and Ibn—