Banu Salul

An Arab group mentioned in the death of Amir ibn al-Tufayl: he died in the house of a woman of theirs, and regretted that his death should be "in the house of a woman of Banu Salul". ¹

The editors of the 1936 edition explain that Amir regretted two things: that he did not die killed, as brave men regret, and that he died in the house of a woman of Salul. The Arabs described Banu Salul as base, and the editors add that this is not because of any baseness in their origins, since their standing among their people is well known; it is a description that came to cling to them, as it did to Muharib and Bahila. ¹ This description is taken from the editors and from ancient Arab usage, not from the museum.