‘Ujrah said to the Messenger of Allah...

‘Ujrah said to the Messenger of Allah: يا رسول الله كيف الصلاة عليكم أهل البيت فإن الله قد علمنا كيف نسلم عليكم O Messenger of Allah! What is the manner of the salat upon you, , for Allah has taught us how to send salam upon you ()? We know from this that the Sahabah used to send salam upon members of the . In fact, it was Allah Himself Who taught them to send salam upon the .

Sending salam upon a male member of the , for instance, is to say “alaihi al-salam” (peace be upon him), “salamullah ‘alaihi” (peace of Allah be upon him), or similar statements containing “salam” (peace) after mentioning or writing his name. The Sahabah used to do it, as Ka’b testified. Some of the early Sunnis – from all fields of knowledge - also did it to a good extent. Examples abound galore in their classical books.

However, in order to conserve space, we will be citing only a few, from Sahih al-Bukhari. Concerning Amir al-Muminin, ‘alaihi al-salam, Imam al-Bukhari writes: قال علي عليه السلام الذاريات الرياح ‘Ali, ‘alaihi al-salam, said: “Al-Dhariyat are the winds”.[^8] With regards to his wife, the blessed daughter of the Messenger of Allah, ‘alaiha al-salam, al-Bukhari also states: فقالت فاطمة عليها السلام…. Fatimah, ‘alaiha…