“Tabūdhakī! I am a client of Banū Minqar. It was only that some people from Tabūdhak lodged in my house, so they called me ‘the Tabūdhakī.’” (1)

Others say that a tabūdhakī is someone who sells chicken necks and gizzards. (2)

Ibn Ḥibbān said, “He was among the God-fearing.”

Al-Ḥasan ibn al-Qāsim ibn Duḥaym al-Dimashqī related, from Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Minqarī al-Baṣrī:

“Yahyā ibn Maʿīn came to us and wrote ḥadith from Abū Salamah. Then he said to him, ‘I would like to mention something to you, so please do not become angry.’

Abū Salamah replied, ‘Go ahead.’

Yahyā said, ‘The report of Hammām, from Thābit, from Anas, from Abū Bakr—the narration of the Cave (3)—none of your companions has transmitted it; only ʿAffān and Ḥibbān have done so. I did not find it at the beginning of your notebook; I found it only on the back.’

Abū Salamah responded, ‘And what is it that you want?’

He said, ‘Swear to me that you heard it from Hammām.’

Abū Salamah replied, ‘You have said that you have written twenty thousand reports from me. If you consider me truthful in those, you should not accuse me of lying in a single ḥadith; but if you deem me a liar, then you should not believe any of them—do not write anything from me, but discard it. Barrah bint Abī ʿĀṣim is thrice divorced if I did not hear it from Hammām, and by Allah, I will never speak to you again!’ (4)