the native-born freedwomen of Medina. He said to her, “If ever an emir so much as appears at your door, I will most surely kill you. Do you not have a spindle to keep you busy, a Qur’an codex to remind you, or a rosary to occupy your hands?” She sprang up, quite beside herself with anger (1).
It is also said that he left seven sons behind, and that his birthplace was Rayy.
168 – Ḥammād ibn Salama ibn Dīnār al-Baṣrī (Kh, M, 4)
The Imām, exemplar, and Shaykh al-Islam; Abū Salama al-Baṣrī, the grammarian, cloth-merchant, al-Khiraqī, al-Baṭāʾinī; a client of the household of Rabīʿa ibn Mālik, and the son of the sister of Ḥumayd al-Ṭawīl.
He heard hadith from: Ibn Abī Mulayka—his oldest teacher—Anas ibn Sīrīn, Muḥammad ibn Ziyād al-Qurashī, Abū Jamra Naṣr ibn ʿImrān al-Ḍubaʿī, Thābit al-Bunānī, ʿAmmār ibn Abī ʿAmmār, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Kathīr al-Dārī the Qur’an-reciter, Abū ʿImrān al-Jawnī, Abū Ghālib Ḥazawwar, the companion of Abū Umāma, Qatāda ibn Diʿāma, Simāk ibn Ḥarb, Ḥumayd—his maternal uncle—Ḥammād ibn Abī Sulaymān the jurist, Saʿd ibn Jumhān, Abū al-ʿUsharāʾ al-Dārimī, Yaʿlā ibn ʿAṭāʾ, Suhayl ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ, Isḥāq ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Ṭalḥa, Iyās ibn Muʿāwiya, Bishr ibn Ḥarb al-Nadabī (2), and ʿAlī ibn Zayd.
(1) For a detailed version of the report, see Ibn al-Athir, al-Kamil, vol. 6, pp. 99-100. Further biographical notices appear in: Ibn Saad, Tabaqat, vol. 7, p. 282; Khalifah, Tabaqat, p. 223; Khalifah, Tarikh, p. 439; al-Bukhari, al-Tarikh al-Kabir, vol. 3, pp. 22-23; al-Tarikh al-Saghir, vol. 2, p. 168; Ibn Qutaybah, al-Maʿarif, p. 503; al-Fasawi, al-Maʿrifah wa-l-Tarikh, vol. 2, pp. 193-204; Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa-l-Taʿdil, vol. 3, pp. 140-142; Ibn Hibban, Mashahir ʿUlamaʾ al-Amsar, p. 157; al-Zubaydi, Tabaqat al-Nahawiyyin, p. 51; Abu Nuʿaym, Hilyat al-Awliyaʾ, vol. 6, pp. 249-257; Ibn al-Nadim, al-Fihrist, book 6, section 6; Yaqut, Muʿjam al-Udabaʾ, vol. 10, pp. 254-258; al-Qifti, Inbah al-Ruah, vol. 1, pp. 329-330; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-Kamal (MS), pp. 329-331; al-Dhahabi, Tadhhib al-Tahdhib (MS), vol. 1, pp. 173-174; al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, vol. 1, pp. 202-203; al-Dhahabi, Mizan al-Iʿtidal, vol. 1, pp. 590-595; al-Dhahabi, al-ʿIbar, vol. 1, pp. 248-249; al-Suyuti, al-Balghah fi Tarikh Aʾimmat al-Lughah, p. 73; Ibn al-Jazari, Tabaqat al-Qurraʾ, vol. 1, p. 258; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, vol. 3, pp. 11-16; al-Dhahabi, Tabaqat al-Huffaz, pp. 87-88; al-Suyuti, Bughyat al-Wuʿat, vol. 1, pp. 548-549; Ibn Hajar, Khulasat Tadhhib al-Kamal, p. 92; Ibn al-Imad, Shadharat al-Dhahab, vol. 1, p. 262.
(2) al-Nadabi: pronounced with a short a on both the nun and the dal; the nisbah goes back to al-Nadb ibn al-Hawn, a clan of the Azd tribe.