Ahmad ibn Ḥanbal replied, “Ḥammād ibn Salamah is, in our eyes, one of the trustworthy narrators; every day our confidence in him only deepens.”
Abū Salamah al-Tabūdhakī said, “Ḥammād ibn Salamah died at the age of seventy-six.”
I comment: On that basis, his birth must have occurred during the lifetime of Anas ibn Mālik.
Abū al-Ḥasan al-Madāʾinī reported: “Ḥammād ibn Salamah died on a Tuesday in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of the year 167 AH, and Isḥāq ibn Sulaymān led the funeral prayer for him.”
I add: More than one authority dates his death to that same year.
Some have said that he died after the Day of Sacrifice.
Shabāb al-ʿUṣfurī, in his History, writes: “Ḥammād ibn Salamah, the client of Banū Rabīʿah ibn Zayd Manāt ibn Tamīm, whose kunya was Abū Salamah, died in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of the year seven”—that is, 167 AH.
As for ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-ʿAishī, he claimed that the death occurred in Dhū al-Ḥijjah of the year six (166 AH); this is an error.
In that same year seven, other leading scholars also passed away alongside Ḥammād, among them: Abū Ḥamzah Muḥammad ibn Maymūn al-Sakkarī (1), the hadith scholar of Marw; al-Ḥasan ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Ḥayy al-Hamdānī (2), the jurist of Kūfah; al-Rabīʿ ibn Muslim (3) of Basra; Sallām ibn Miskīn (4) of Basra; al-Qāsim ibn al-Faḍl al-Ḥuddānī (5) of Basra; and al-Sarī