Ḥātim ibn al-Layth al-Jawharī said, “Abū Salamah’s hair and beard were red, and he used to dye them with henna. He had met Saʿīd ibn Abī ʿArūbah and memorised a number of legal questions from him. He died in Basra, in Rajab 223 AH. (1)
Ibn Saʿd said, “He passed away on the night of Tuesday, the thirteenth of Rajab, in the year three (203 AH). (2)”
Abū al-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Hibat Allāh informed us; Abū Rūḥ ʿAbd al-Muʿizz ibn Muḥammad informed us; Zāhir ibn Ṭāhir informed us; Abū Saʿd Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Kanjārūdhī informed us; Abū Saʿīd ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb informed us; Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb al-Rāzī narrated to us; Abū ʿUmar Ḥafṣ ibn ʿUmar and Abū Salamah Mūsā ibn Ismāʿīl both said:
“Hammād ibn Salamah told us, from Thābit, from Anas, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: ‘Joseph was granted half of all beauty.’”
Muslim also records the report (3) through Shaybān, from Ḥammād, so our chain here is correspondingly higher.
Abū al-Faraj ibn Qudāmah and others wrote to us that Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar informed them; Abū Ghālib ibn al-Bannā informed us; Abū Muḥammad al-Jawharī narrated to us; Abū Bakr al-Qaṭīʿī narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn Yūnus al-Qurashī narrated to us; Abū Salamah narrated to us; Saʿīd ibn Salamah ibn Abī al-Ḥusām narrated to us, from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, from his brother, from his father, from ʿĀʾishah, who said:
“Eleven women once gathered together and pledged, solemnly agreeing, that they would not conceal from one another anything concerning their husbands.” She then related the story of Umm Zarʿ, and ʿĀʾishah said, “He said to me—”