- Salim ibn Abd-Allah
Salim ibn
Abd-Allah was the grandchild ofUmar ibn al-Khattab was a well known narrator ofhadith (sayings ofMuhammad ), many of which he related first hand from either his father,Abd-Allah ibn Umar (d. 693), or his grandfather, thecaliph Umar ibn al-Khattab (r. 634-644). He was also related to the caliphUmar ibn Abdul Aziz (r. 717-720) who was the grandson of Salim's uncle,Asim ibn Umar , through his daughter Umm Asim.Salim is mentioned in
Imam Malik 'sMuwatta regarding theIslamic practice of "rida", where a woman becomes unmarriageable kin ("mahram ") by means of suckling:"Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi that Salim ibn Abdullah ibn Umar informed him that A'isha "umm al-muminin" sent him away while he was being nursed to her sister
Umm Kulthum bint Abu Bakr and said, "Suckle him ten times so that he can come in to see me." Salim said, "Umm Kulthum nursed me three times and then fell ill, so that she only nursed me three times. I could not go in to see A'isha because Umm Kulthum did not finish for me the ten times." [Imam Malik, Muwatta: Book 30, Number 30.1.7]He, in Saheeh al-Bukhaaree alone, relates three Ahaadeeth.
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