بنو سلمة

بنو سلمة

A clan of the Khazraj; it includes Ka'b ibn Malik, the man who disparaged Ka'b at Tabuk, and the men who reproached him after he told the Prophet the truth. In al-Samhudi they settled between the Mosque of the Two Qiblas and al-Midhad in a quarter called 'Khurba' — ruin — which the Prophet renamed 'Sulha' on the sounder reading ('Talha' in Ibn Zabala's copy); they built the utum al-Aghlab, Khayt and Mani', and when they complained of their distance the Prophet said 'stay, for you are its tent-pegs', then Umar moved them to the foot of Sal' ¹.