ʿAbd Allāh said, “By Allah, my uncle Sālim never becomes angry except over something that truly matters.” So I owned up to him, and he and the people sitting with him laughed; he even bestowed a gift on me. I left, and there was Ashʿab meeting Sālim. He said to me,
“Woe to you! Did you not eat the hareesa at my house?”
I replied, “Indeed I did.”
He retorted, “By Allah, you have really made me doubt!” (1)

Al-Aṣmaʿī related that Ashʿab once passed along a road and some boys started to pester him. He cried out, “Shame on you! Sālim is handing out walnuts—or dates!” The children bolted off running, and Ashʿab raced after them, saying, “How do I know? Perhaps it is actually true.” (2)

Sālim died in 106 AH. This was the view of Ibn Shawdhab, ʿAṭṭāf ibn Khālid, Ḍamrah, Abū Nuʿaym, and several others. Some added: in Dhū al-Qaʿdah. Others said: in Dhū al-Ḥijjah, and that Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik led the funeral prayer for him after returning from the Hajj. Khalīfah and Abū Umayyah ibn Yaʿlā held that he died in 107 AH, while al-Haytham ibn ʿAdī and Abū ʿUmar al-Ḍarīr said: in 108 AH. The first opinion is the soundest.

The ḥāfiẓ Ibn ʿAsākir (3) said: Sālim travelled to Syria as an envoy to ʿAbd al-Malik bearing his father’s pledge of allegiance, then visited al-Walīd, and later ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz.

Yahyā ibn Saʿīd said: “I asked Sālim about a hadith, ‘Did you hear it from Ibn ʿUmar?’ He replied, ‘Only once? More than a hundred times!’” (4)