Sunayd ibn Dāwūd said in his Tafsīr: “ʿAbbād ibn ʿAbbād al-Muhallabī reported to us, from ʿĀṣim al-Aḥwal, from ʿIkrimah, concerning a man who said to his servant: ‘If I do not flog you one hundred lashes, then my wife is divorced.’ ʿIkrimah replied: ‘He neither lashes his servant nor divorces his wife; this is one of Satan’s footsteps.’

I say: This is plain evidence that ʿIkrimah held the view that an oath of divorce pronounced in anger is one of Satan’s provocations, and therefore no divorce is effected thereby—Allah knows best.

It is also said that the word ʿIkrimah denotes the female pigeon.

10 – Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Sammān, Dhakwān ibn ʿAbd Allāh * (ʿ)
A paragon, ḥāfiẓ, and authoritative ḥujjah, Dhakwān ibn ʿAbd Allāh, the client of the Mother of the Believers Juwayriyah al-Ghaṭafāniyyah.

He was among the senior scholars of Madinah and used to bring oil and clarified butter to Kūfah.

Birth: during the caliphate of ʿUmar. According to what has reached us, he was present on the Day of the House and during the siege of ʿUthmān.

He heard from: Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ, ʿĀʾishah, Abū Hurayrah, Ibn ʿAbbās, Abū Saʿīd, ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, Muʿāwiyah, and others besides them.

He kept company with Abū Hurayrah for a considerable time.

Those who narrated from him include: his son Suhayl ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ, al-Aʿmash, Sumayy, Zayd ibn Aslam, Bukayr ibn al-Ashajj, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dīnār, al-Zuhrī, Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī, and many others.

Imām Aḥmad mentioned him, saying, “Reliable, reliable—one of the noblest and most trustworthy of people.”

It was said that he had a very large beard.

Abū Khālid al-Aḥmar narrated from al-Aʿmash who said, “I heard one thousand hadiths from Abū Ṣāliḥ al-Sammān.”