Al-Wāqidī advanced an uncorroborated view concerning the year of Abū Salamah’s death and his age, saying: “He died in 104 AH, aged seventy-two.”

Al-Haytham ibn ʿAdī recorded the same date.

Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid said, “Abū Salamah came to us during the governorship of Bishr ibn Marwān, and he had married off his daughter for a dowry of one mudd of dates.”

ʿAmr ibn Dīnār related that Abū Salamah once declared, “I possess deeper juristic understanding than anyone who has ever relieved himself.” Ibn ʿAbbās retorted, “—in the latrines!” This was transmitted by Ibn ʿUyaynah from him. (1)

Ibn Luhayʿah narrated from Abū al-Aswad:
“Abū Salamah was travelling with some companions when they spotted a flock of sheep. Abū Salamah supplicated, ‘O Allah, if—in Your prior knowledge—I am destined to be caliph, then give us some of their milk.’ When they reached the animals, they found that every one of them was a billy-goat. (2)”

ʿAmr ibn Dīnār also narrated from ʿĀʾishah that she said to Abū Salamah while he was still a youth, “Your likeness is that of a fledgling rooster: it hears the cocks crowing, so it crows.” (3)

It is reported from al-Shaʿbī, who said: “When Abū Salamah arrived in Kūfah he was walking between me and another man. Someone asked him, ‘Who among those still alive is the most knowledgeable?’ He hesitated for a moment, then replied, ‘The man standing between you two.’ (4)”

ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad, along with a number of others by correspondence, informed us that ʿUmar ibn Ṭabarzadh (5) told them: “Hibat Allāh ibn al-Ḥuṣayn narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn