The words of Salman (may Allah be pleased with him)

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him); he said: When Allah Almighty created Adam (peace be upon him), He said: "One thing is Mine, one thing is yours, and one thing is between Me and you. That which is Mine is that you worship Me and do not associate anyone with Me. That which is yours is that whatever deed you do, I will recompense you for it. And that which is between Me and you is that you ask and supplicate, and I will answer."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him); he said: "The wife of Pharaoh used to be tortured by being kept in the sun, but when they went back from her, the angels would shade her with their wings, and she would see her house in Paradise."

It is narrated from Sa'id bin al-Musayyib that Sayyiduna Salman and Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Salam (may Allah be pleased with them both) met each other, and one of them said to his companion: "If you meet your Lord (before me), tell me what you encountered from Allah. And if I meet Allah before you, I will meet you and tell you." Then one of them died, and he met his companion in a dream and said: "Put your trust in Allah and receive glad tidings, for I have seen nothing at all like trust in Allah." He said this three times.

Zayd bin Suhan narrates about Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) that he prayed two rak'ahs before Fajr. The narrator said: I spoke to him, and he said: "Guard your self while awake, and it will guard you while asleep."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him); he said: "On the Day of Resurrection, the person with the most sins will be the one who spoke the most in disobedience to Allah."

It is narrated from Ubadah bin Nusayy; he said: "Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) had a tent made of 'aba' (coarse cloak-cloth)."

It is narrated from Ibn Buraydah that Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) used to prepare food from his earnings. Then he would invite lepers and eat with them.

It is narrated from al-Nu'man bin Humayd; he said: I went with my maternal uncle Abbad to Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him). When Sayyiduna Salman saw him, he shook hands with him. His hair was trimmed, and he was weaving a mat. Sayyiduna Salman said: "This material is bought for me for one dirham. I weave it and sell it for three dirhams. Then I give one dirham in charity, put one dirham back into this work, and spend one dirham. And even if Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) were to forbid me (from this), I would not stop."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Jarir (may Allah be pleased with him); he said: We stopped at a place called al-Sifah, and we saw (there) a man sleeping in the shade of a tree. The sun had nearly reached him. He said: I said to the servant: "Take this leather mat and shade this man." The narrator said: So he shaded him. When the man woke up, it turned out to be Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him). The narrator said: I came to him and greeted him. The narrator said: Then Sayyiduna Salman said: "O Jarir, adopt humility for the sake of Allah, for whoever humbles himself for the sake of Allah, Allah Almighty will raise him on the Day of Resurrection. O Jarir, do you know what the darknesses of the Day of Resurrection are?" The narrator said: I said: "I do not know." He (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "People's oppression of one another in the world." Then he (may Allah be pleased with him) took a twig that I could scarcely see between his two fingers and said: "O Jarir, if you were to look for a twig like this in Paradise, you would not find it." The narrator said: I said: "O Abu Abdullah, where then will the date palms and other trees be?" He (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Their roots will be of pearls and gold, and on top of them will be fruit."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him); he said: "When a servant remembers Allah in prosperity and praises Him in times of ease, and then some hardship afflicts him and he supplicates to Allah, the angels say: 'A familiar voice of a weak servant.' So they intercede for him. And if he does not remember Allah in prosperity and does not praise Allah in times of ease, and then hardship afflicts him and he supplicates to Allah, the angels say: 'An unfamiliar voice.' So they do not intercede for him."

It is narrated from Husayn bin Uqbah; he said that Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Knowledge that is not conveyed is like a treasure from which nothing is spent."

Musa bin Yasar relates that Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) wrote a letter to Sayyiduna Abu al-Darda (may Allah be pleased with him): "In the shade of the Throne will be a just ruler; a wealthy man who, when he gives charity, conceals his right hand from his left hand; a man whom a beautiful woman of noble lineage invites to herself, and he says: 'I fear the Lord of the Worlds'; a man who grows up in such a way that his health, his youth and his strength are spent in deeds that Allah loves and that please Him; a man whose heart remains attached to the mosques because of his love for them; a man who remembers Allah and his eyes overflow out of fear of Allah; and two men who meet, and one of them says to the other: 'I love you for the sake of Allah.'" He also wrote in the letter: "Knowledge is like springs, and through it Allah Almighty benefits whomever He wills. Wisdom that is not spoken is like a body without a soul. Knowledge that is not acted upon is like a treasure from which nothing is spent. And the scholar is like a man for whom a lamp is lit on the road, so people take light from it, and each one prays for him."

And he wrote to him: Knowledge is like springs; Allah benefits by it whomever He wills. The likeness of wisdom that is not spoken is that of a body without a soul. The likeness of knowledge that is not acted upon is that of a treasure from which nothing is spent. And the likeness of the scholar is that of a man for whom a lamp was lit on a road, so the people began to take light from it, and each of them prays for him.

It is narrated from Ja'far that Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) used to say: Some people carry disease and some people carry healing. Some people are a key to good and some people are a key to evil.

It is narrated from Shahr bin Hawshab that Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) went to the home of Sayyiduna Abu al-Darda (may Allah be pleased with him) but did not find him there. So he greeted Sayyidah Umm al-Darda (may Allah be pleased with her) with peace and said: Where is my brother? She replied: In the mosque. He was wearing a Qatawani cloak of his. Sayyidah Umm al-Darda (may Allah be pleased with her) tossed an old cushion to him. He refused to sit on it, and he took off his turban, put it down and sat on it. The narrator says: Then Sayyiduna Abu al-Darda (may Allah be pleased with him) came, carrying meat worth two dirhams. Sayyidah Umm al-Darda got up, cooked it and baked bread. Then she brought the food. Sayyiduna Abu al-Darda (may Allah be pleased with him) was fasting. Sayyiduna Salman said: Who will eat with me? He said: Umm al-Darda will eat with you. Sayyiduna Salman did not leave him until he had broken his fast. Then Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) said to Umm al-Darda, for he had seen her shabby state: What is the matter with you? She replied: Your brother has no desire for women. He fasts by day and stands in prayer by night. So he spent the night at their home. Whenever Sayyiduna Abu al-Darda (may Allah be pleased with him) intended to get up, Sayyiduna Salman would hold him back, until it was the time before Fajr. Then he got up, performed ablution and prayed some rak'ahs. The narrator says: At this Sayyiduna Abu al-Darda (may Allah be pleased with him) said to him: You have kept me from my prayer. Sayyiduna Salman said to him: Pray and sleep. Fast and break your fast, for your family has a right over you and your eyes have a right over you.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Salman and other Companions of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) (may Allah be pleased with them) that they said: On the Day of Resurrection a man will be brought who has done deeds through which he hopes for salvation. The narrator says: But one man after another will keep coming and complaining of the wrongs he did them. So some of his good deeds will be taken and given to that complainant, until not one good deed of his remains. Then a complainant will come to complain of his wrongs, and some of that complainant's misdeeds will be taken and placed on top of this man's sins. Then he will be thrown face-first into Hell, or he will be cast into Hell.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: If one man were to spend the night giving away white slaves, and another were to spend it reciting the Qur'an and remembering Allah, I think that the one remembering Allah would be the better.

It is narrated about Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) that whenever he lay sleepless at night, he would say: Glory be to the Lord of the prophets and the God of the messengers.

It is narrated from Abdullah bin Salamah that whenever Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) received a goat from the spoils of war, he would slaughter it, cut its meat into pieces, make a waterskin from its hide and make a rope from its wool. Then if he saw someone in need of a rope for his horse, he would give him this rope, and if he saw someone in need of a waterskin, he would give him the waterskin.

It is narrated from Abu al-Bakhtari that a man from the tribe of Banu Abs was with Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him). He came to the River Tigris, and Sayyiduna Salman said to him: Drink water. He drank. Then he said to him: Drink water. He drank. Then he said to him: Drink water. He drank. Then he (may Allah be pleased with him) said to him: O brother of Banu Abs, do you think that this sip of yours has lessened the water of this Tigris in any way? Likewise, knowledge is something that does not run out. So seek for yourself the knowledge that benefits. Then he passed by Nahr Dann, and there were foodstuffs there and grain being winnowed in the wind. He said: O brother of Banu Abs, the One who owns its treasures owned them also when Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) was alive. Those people would pass the morning and the evening without having a single qafiz of wheat among them. Then he mentioned Jalula and the victories of the Muslims there, and said: O brother of Banu Abs, Allah Almighty has granted you this, although Allah Almighty had power over it even when Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) was alive.

It is narrated from Nafi' bin Jubayr that Sayyiduna Hudhayfah and Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with them both) said to a non-Arab woman: Is there a clean place here in which we may pray? The woman said: Purify your heart and pray wherever you wish. Then one of them said to his companion: This woman has understanding.

It is narrated from Abu Uthman that Sayyiduna Salman al-Farisi (may Allah be pleased with him) said to me: The market is indeed the place where Satan lays his eggs and hatches his young. So if you are able not to be the first to enter the market, nor the last of those to leave it, then do so.

It is narrated from Aws bin Dam'aj that we said to Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him): O Abu Abdullah, why do you not narrate hadith to us? He said: The remembrance of Allah is very great; and feeding people, spreading the greeting of peace, and praying while people are asleep.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: Allah Almighty is shy that a servant should spread out his hands to Him, asking Him for good through them, and that Allah Almighty should return them disappointed.

It is narrated from Tariq bin Shihab that he said: I had a brother older than me whose kunyah was Abu Azrah. He used to mention Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) very often. Hearing my brother mention Sayyiduna Salman so much, I longed to meet him. The narrator says: One day my brother said to me: Would you like to meet Abu Abdullah? He is staying at al-Qadisiyyah. The narrator says: Whenever Sayyiduna Salman returned from battle he would stay at al-Qadisiyyah, and whenever he returned from Hajj he would halt at al-Mada'in, intending to go on campaign. The narrator says: I said: Yes (I would like to). The narrator says: So we set off until we alighted at his house in al-Qadisiyyah. He was sitting with a piece of cloth in front of him, and he was sewing a basket or tanning a hide. The narrator says: We greeted him with peace and sat down. The narrator says: He said: O my nephew, hold to moderation, for it is more effective.

It is narrated from Amr bin Abi Qurrah al-Kindi that my father offered Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) that he should marry his sister. He refused, and my father married him to his freedwoman, whose name was Buqayrah. The narrator says: It reached Abu Qurrah that there was some matter between Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) and Sayyiduna Salman. So he came to look for him, and was told that he was at his vegetable plot. So he went towards him and met him. He had a basket with vegetables in it. He had put his stick through the handle of the basket, and it was on his shoulder.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: On the Day of Resurrection the sun will be given the heat of ten years. Then it will be brought near the skulls of the people until it is at the distance of two bow-lengths. The narrator says: Then they will sweat until the sweat soaks into the ground to the height of a man. Then it will rise until a man begins to gargle. Sayyiduna Salman said: Until a man will say: Ghar, ghar.

It is narrated from Abdullah bin Hubayrah that Sayyiduna Abu al-Darda (may Allah be pleased with him) wrote a letter to Sayyiduna Salman (may Allah be pleased with him): To proceed: I invite you to the Holy Land and the land of jihad. The narrator says: Sayyiduna Salman then wrote to him: To proceed: You have written that you invite me to the Holy Land and the land of jihad. By my life, no land makes its people holy; rather, it is a man's deeds that make him holy.