Hazrat Sha’bah says that I asked Hazrat Hakam and Hazrat Hammad both about greeting women with salam. Hazrat Hammad considered it disliked (makruh) to greet both old and young women, and Hazrat Hakam said: Hazrat Shurayh used to greet everyone with salam. I asked: Even women? He replied: He used to greet everyone.