Salamah ibn al-Muhabbaq

Salamah ibn al-Muhabbaq al-Hudhali, may Allah be pleased with him, was a companion of the Prophet ﷺ from the Hudhayl tribe. His nickname 'ibn al-Muhabbaq' (son of the one who was tied) relates to a story involving his father. After the Islamic conquests, he settled in Basra, where he became one of the companions responsible for transmitting prophetic knowledge to the Muslims of Iraq. He narrated hadiths from the Prophet ﷺ on matters of personal conduct, legal rulings, and Islamic ethics. Among his narrations is a report about a legal ruling the Prophet ﷺ gave concerning a slave woman — a narration that became a reference point in discussions of Islamic family law. His narrations are found in the Sunan of Abu Dawud and other collections. He is regarded by hadith scholars as a reliable companion narrator, and his reports provide an additional strand in the transmission of the Sunnah through the companion community in Basra, a city that became one of the great centers of Islamic learning in the early Islamic period.