QuizTime (45):
Who was that Sahabi, from Magian became Christian and then became slave of two
Jewish people & became Muslim?
Ans:
Salmaan al-Faarisi (may Allaah be
pleased with him).
The great Sahaabi Salmaan al-Faarisi (may Allaah be
pleased with him) came to Islam. He was a Magian (Zoroastrian), then he
became a Christian, then he became a Muslim.
It was narrated that ‘Abd-Allaah ibn ‘Abbaas said:
Salmaan al-Faarisi told me his story from his own lips. He said:
I was a Persian man, one of the people of Isbahaan,
from a village thereof called Jayy…
… When I reached Syria, I said: Who is the best
person in this religion? They said: The bishop in the church. So I went
to him and said: I like this religion, and I would like to stay with you and
serve you in your church and learn from you and pray with you. He said: Come
in. So I went in with him, but he was a bad man. He would command them and
exhort them to give charity, but he kept a great deal of it for himself and did
not give it to the poor; he had amassed seven chests of gold and silver. I
hated him deeply when I saw what he was doing, then he died and the Christians
gathered to bury him. I said to them: This was a bad man; he commanded you and
exhorted you to give charity, but when you brought it to him he kept it for
himself and did not give any of it to the poor.
They said: How do you know that? Show us where his
treasure is. So I showed them where it was and they brought out seven chests
filled with gold and silver. When they saw that they said: By Allaah, we will
never bury him; then they crucified him and pelted him with stones. Then
they brought another man and appointed him in his place. Salmaan said: I have
never seen a man who does not offer the five daily prayers who was better than
him; he shunned this world and sought the Hereafter and no one strive harder
than him night and day. I loved him as I had never loved anyone before, and I
stayed with him for a while. Then when he was about to die, I said: O So and so,
I was with you and I loved you as I had never loved anyone before, and now the
decree of Allaah has come to you as you see; to whom do you advise me to go?
What do you command me to do? He said: O my son, by
Allaah, I do not know of anyone today who follows what I followed. The people
are doomed; they have changed and abandoned most of what they used to follow,
except for a man in Mosul. He is So and so, and he follows what I used to
follow, so go and join him. When he died and was buried, I went to the man in
Mosul. I said to him: O So and so, So and so advised me when he died to come to
you, and he told me that you follow the same as he followed. He said to me:
Stay with me. So I stayed with him, and I found him to be a good man who
followed the same as his companion had followed. But soon he died. When he was
dying I said to him: O So and so, So and so advised me to come to you and told
me to join you, but now there has come to you from Allaah what you see. To whom
do you advise me to go? What do you command me to do? He said: O my son, by
Allaah I do not know of anyone who follows what we used to follow except a man
in Nasayyibeen.
He is So and so; go to him. When he died and was
buried, I went to the man in Nasayyibeen. I came to him and told him my story
and what my companion had told me to do. He said: Stay with me. So I stayed
with him and I found him to be a follower of the same way as his two
companions, and I stayed with a good man. By Allaah, soon death came upon him,
and when he was dying I said to him: O So and so, So and so advised me to go to
So and so; then So and so advised me to come to you. To whom do you advise me
to go and what do you command me to do? He said: O my son, by Allaah we do not
know of anyone left who follows our way and to whom I can tell you to go,
except a man in ‘Ammooriyyah. He follows something like what we follow. If you
wish, go to him, for he follows our way. When he died and was buried, I went to
the man in ‘Ammooriyyah and told him my story. He said: Stay with me.
So I stayed with a man who was following the same
way as his companions. I earned wealth until I had cows and sheep, then the
decree of Allaah came to him. When he was dying I said to him: O So and so, I
was with So and so, and So and so told me to go to So and so; then So and so
told me to go to So and so; then So and so told me to come to you. To whom do
you advise me to go and what do you command me to do? He said: O my son, by
Allaah, I do not know of anyone who follows our way to whom I can advise you to
go. But there has come the time of a Prophet, who will be sent with the
religion of Ibraaheem. He will appear in the land of the Arabs and will migrate
to a land between two harrahs (lave fields; land with black rocks), between
which there are palm trees. He will have characteristics that will not be
hidden. He will eat of what is given as a gift but he will not eat of what is
given as charity. Between his shoulder blades is the Seal of Prophethood. If
you can go to that land then do so. Then he died and was buried, and I stayed
in ‘Ammooriyyah as long as Allaah willed I should stay, then some merchants of
Kalb passed by me and I said to them: Will you take me to the land of the Arabs
and I will give you these cows and sheep of mine? They said: Yes.
So I gave them the cows and sheep, and they took me
there, but when they brought me to Waadi al-Qura they wronged me and sold me as
a slave to a Jewish man. When I was with him I saw the palm trees, and I hoped
that this was the land that my companion had described to me, but I was not
sure. Whilst I was with him, a cousin of his from Banu Qurayzah came to him
from Madeenah, and he sold me to him, and he took me to Madeenah.
Please
read the Amazing story about this Sahabi:
Allah
knows the best .
By
Mohammed Asif Ali. #MohammedAsifAli
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