148 – Ibrāhīm b. al-Mundhir al-Ḥizāmī narrated to us; Maʿn b. ʿĪsā narrated to us, from Khālid b. Abī Bakr, who said: “Salim b. ʿAbd Allāh was the dearest of ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿUmar’s children to him. When he was reproached for favoring him, he replied:

They chide me for loving Salim, and I chide them in turn;
Salim is to me like the very skin that lies between eye and nose.”