Salem Mawla Abu Hudhayfah
a companion who was counted among the Muhajireen, witnessed all the scenes, participated in the apostasy wars, and was among the reciters who were martyred in the Battle of Yamama.
his biography
Salim was a Persian slave from Istakhar to an Ansar woman named Thabitah bint Yaar al-Awsiyya. Thubaita freed Salem, and Salem ruled her husband, Abu Hudhayfah bin Utbah, who loved and adopted him, and married him to his nephew, Fatima bint Al-Walid bin Utbah bin Rabia, and Salem lived in the care of his adoptive father, Abu Hudhayfah, until God revealed the prohibition of adoption. After the prohibition, Sahla bint Suhail, the wife of Abu Hudhaifa, came to the Prophet Muhammad, and she said: “O Messenger of God, peace is with me, and he has caught up with what men catch.” Umm Salama, the wife of the Prophet Muhammad, mentioned that the mothers of the believers refused to allow anyone to enter upon them with this breast-feeding, and they said that it was only a special concession for Salem.
Reading the Koran
Salem was keen to memorize the Qur’an, so that he used to lead the prayers for the immigrants in Quba before the arrival of the Prophet Muhammad to Yathrib, because he was the one who read them to the Qur’an. Salem had a good voice and good reading, and the Prophet Muhammad praised his reading, in a prophetic hadith narrated by Ibrahim on the authority of Masruq on the authority of Abdullah bin Amr on the authority of the Prophet Muhammad, that he said: “Explore the Qur’an from four, Ibn Masoud, and Salem, the mawla of Abu Hudhaifa, and Ubayy bin Kaab, and Muadh bin Jabal ».
His effort
Since the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, migrated to Yathrib, until Salem stayed with him like other Muslims, and he heard from the Prophet Muhammad hadiths narrated by Thabit bin Qais bin Shammas, Abdullah bin Omar bin Al-Khattab, and Abdullah bin Amr bin Al-Aas. The Prophet Muhammad made a brotherhood between him and Moaz bin Maadh Al-Ansari, and he participated with the Prophet Muhammad in all the invasions. After the death of the Prophet Muhammad and the apostasy of some tribes, Salem participated in the apostasy wars.
In the year 12 AH, in the Battle of Al-Yamamah, which took place during the caliphate of Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq, Salem was the owner of the banner of the Muhajireen. When the battle intensified, the Muslim forces initially retreated, and they retreated. Salem was terrified of that, and he shouted at the Muslims: “This is not what we used to do with the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him.” He dug a hole for himself, and stuck in it defending the flag until he was killed. On that day, Salem and his master, Abu Hudhayfah, were found dead, the head of one of them at the feet of the other.
After Salem's death
Abu Bakr sent his inheritance to his mistress Thabitah, but she refused to accept it, so he made it in the treasury of the Muslims. And it is reported that Umar bin Al-Khattab, when he recommended to the six who made the matter of the caliphate a consultation between them, that he said: “If one of two men caught me, then I made the matter to him, I would trust him, Salem, the mawla of Abu Hudhaifa, and Abu Ubaidah bin Al-Jarrah.”