his brother ʿAbd al-Majīd ibn Suhayl; his nephew Zurārah ibn Muṣʿab; ʿUrwah; ʿIrāk ibn Mālik; al-Shaʿbī; Saʿīd al-Maqburī; ʿAmr ibn Dīnār; ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz; Nāfiʿ, the protégé of ʿUmar; al-Zuhrī; Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr; Salamah ibn Kuhayl; Bukayr ibn al-Ashajj; Sālim Abū al-Naḍr; Abū al-Zinād; Abū Ṭuwālah; Ṣafwān ibn Sulaym; ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Faḍl al-Hāshimī; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Labīd; Sharīk ibn Abī Namr; Abū Ḥāzim al-Aʿraj; Ṣāliḥ ibn Muḥammad ibn Zāyidah; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAqīl; Hishām ibn ʿUrwah; Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, and his brother ʿAbd Rabbih ibn Saʿīd; ʿUthmān ibn Abī Sulaymān ibn Jubayr ibn Muṭʿim; Muḥammad ibn Abī Ḥarmlah; Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAlqamah; Nūḥ ibn Abī Bilāl—along with many others.
Ibn Saʿd says, in the second tier of the scholars of Madinah (1): “He was reliable, a jurist, and prolific in hadith. His mother was Tumāḍir bint al-Aṣbagh ibn ʿAmr of Dūmat al-Jandal; she lived during the lifetime of the Prophet ﷺ and was the first woman of the Kalb tribe to be married to a man of Quraysh.”
He was nursed by Umm Kulthūm, and thus ʿĀʾishah became his foster aunt (2).
Al-Zuhrī narrated from Abū Salamah that he said, “Had you treated Ibn ʿAbbās gently, you would have drawn from him a vast store of knowledge.” (3)
Saʿd ibn Ibrāhīm said: “Abū Salamah used to dye his hair black.” (4)
Shuʿbah narrated from Abū Isḥāq who said: “In his own time, Abū Salamah was superior to Ibn ʿUmar in his.” (5)