Abu Salih al-Samman

Dhakwan ibn Abd Allah, Abu Salih al-Samman, freedman of the Mother of the Believers Juwayriya al-Ghatafaniyya, one of the leading scholars of Medina. ¹ He heard from Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, Aisha, Abu Hurayra, Ibn Abbas and Abd Allah ibn Umar. ¹ Among those who narrated from him were his son Suhayl, al-A'mash, Sumayy, Zayd ibn Aslam, Abd Allah ibn Dinar and al-Zuhri. ² Ahmad ibn Hanbal described him as trustworthy. ¹

Ibn Hajar lists him in al-Taqrib under no. 1841: "Dhakwan, Abu Salih al-Samman al-Zayyat, of Medina: firmly trustworthy (thiqa thabt); he used to bring oil to Kufa; of the third (generation); he died in 101 AH." ³

Ibn Hajar cites Kashif al-Dhahabi: he attended the Dar (the Prophet ﷺ's gatherings), narrated from Aisha and Abu Hurayra, and was narrated from by his sons Abd Allah, Suhayl and Salih and by al-A'mash among the trustworthy imams — al-A'mash alone carried a thousand hadiths from him — and he died in Medina. ³ In Marasil Abi Zur'a he did not meet Abu Dharr, and he narrates from Abu Bakr, Ali and Abu al-Darda' as mursal reports. ³