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ʿAbdallāh b. Salām

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Early Jewish convert to Islam, Companion of Muhammad, d. Medina 43 AH/663–4 CE

Names

  • Arabic: عبد الله بن سلام = ʿAbdallāh b. Salām 1

Attributes

  • Male
  • Death: 43 AH/663–4

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Event mentioned by Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād.1 before 843 CEc. 820-843 CE687 A.H. / 1288-9 CE1993

Sources

  • 1Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, Kitāb al-Fitan, edited by Suhayl Zakkār (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1993), 76, 85, 92, 93, 94, 106, 257, 344, 361, 383, 422 [Arabic].
    • `Abdallāh b. Salām: Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād, The Book of Tribulations: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition, translated by David Cook (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017), 59, 70, 79, 81, 82, 91, 242, 349, 369, 393, 428 [English].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Jessica Mutter, “ʿAbdallāh b. Salām” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/14534.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML
  • Jessica Mutter: abstract; birth/death/floruit dates entry; and gender assignment, matching, Arabic name collection and transcription from Nuʿaym Ibn Ḥammād’s Kitāb al-Fitan
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