Salama al-Sahmi

سلامة السهمي

Salama al-Sahmi, an Arab poet of the second half of the first/seventh century, of the tribe of Sahm, a branch of Hudhayl in the Hijaz, who embraced the Marwanid cause, was imprisoned by Ibn al-Zubayr and freed on his death, and praised 'Abd al-Malik and his brother 'Abd al-'Aziz, above all the amir Abu Khalid 'Abd al-'Aziz of the Asid clan. The printed heading gives only 'SALAMA'; the entry's first line names no father, so the name here is Salama. ¹