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Narrated `Aisha:Abu Hudhaifa bin `Utba bin Rabi`a bin `Abdi Shams who had witnessed the battle of Badr along with the Prophet (ﷺ) adopted Salim as his son, to whom he married his niece, Hind bint Al-Walid bin `Utba bin Rabi`a; and Salim was the freed slave of an Ansar woman, just as the Prophet (ﷺ) had adopted Zaid as his son. It was the custom in the Pre-Islamic Period that if somebody adopted a boy, the people would call him the son of the adoptive father and he would be the latter's heir. But when Allah revealed the Divine Verses: 'Call them by (the names of) their fathers . . . your freed-slaves,' (33.5) the adopted persons were called by their fathers' names. The one whose father was not known, would be regarded as a Maula and your brother in religion. Later on Sahla bint Suhail bin `Amr Al-Quraishi Al-`Amiri-- and she was the wife of Abu- Hudhaifa bin `Utba--came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! We used to consider Salim as our (adopted) son, and now Allah has revealed what you know (regarding adopted sons)." The sub-narrator then mentioned the rest of the narration

حدثنا ابو اليمان، اخبرنا شعيب، عن الزهري، قال اخبرني عروة بن الزبير، عن عايشة رضى الله عنها ان ابا حذيفة بن عتبة بن ربيعة بن عبد شمس،، وكان، ممن شهد بدرا مع النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم تبنى سالما، وانكحه بنت اخيه هند بنت الوليد بن عتبة بن ربيعة وهو مولى لامراة من الانصار، كما تبنى النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم زيدا، وكان من تبنى رجلا في الجاهلية دعاه الناس اليه وورث من ميراثه حتى انزل الله {ادعوهم لابايهم} الى قوله {ومواليكم} فردوا الى ابايهم، فمن لم يعلم له اب كان مولى واخا في الدين، فجاءت سهلة بنت سهيل بن عمرو القرشي ثم العامري وهى امراة ابي حذيفة النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم فقالت يا رسول الله انا كنا نرى سالما ولدا وقد انزل الله فيه ما قد علمت فذكر الحديث