سلمان بن ربيعة الباهلي

سلمان بن ربيعة الباهلي

Salman ibn Rabi'a al-Bahili; in al-Baladhuri: it is said he was in Abu Ubayda's army with Abu Umama al-Suddi ibn Ajlan, companion of the Messenger of God, and lodged at a fortress in Qurus that was named after him — known as Hisn Salman — then returned from Syria among the reinforcements sent to Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas in Iraq; others say he raided the Byzantines after Iraq's conquest and before his march on Armenia, camping by this fortress which he had reached from the Mar'ash side, whence the name; yet others hold that this Salman — with Ziyad — was of the Saqaliba whom Marwan ibn Muhammad stationed in the marches, and that the fortress was named for that man; God knows best.