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companions: ❝Eat!❞, but he himself refrained from eating. Salmaan said to himself:<br />
“This is the first (sign).””<br />
Salmaan continued: “Then I left and gathered some more food. When the Prophet<br />
ﷺ left Qubaa for al-Madeenah, I went to him and said: “I noticed that you did not eat of<br />
the Sadaqah I gave. This, however, is this is a gift with which I wish to honor you.” So he<br />
ﷺ<br />
ate some of it and asked his companions to join him, so they all ate from it. So I said to myself: “This is the second (sign).””<br />
Salmaan said: “Later I went to the Messenger of <strong>Al</strong>laah ﷺ while he was in <strong>Al</strong>-Baqee`<br />
al-Gharqad (the cemetery), where he had attended the Janaazah (funeral) of one of his<br />
Companions. He was wearing two cloaks, sitting there among his Companions. I<br />
greeted him with Salaam and went behind him, looking at his back (between the<br />
shoulders): “Does he have the seal of the Prophet which my Christian companion had<br />
described to me?” When the Messenger of <strong>Al</strong>laah ﷺ saw me go behind him, he<br />
understood that I was trying to establish something of what had been described to me.<br />
So he let his cloak drop from his back, and I saw the Seal. Realizing that indeed he was<br />
the Prophet, I embraced him, kissed him and started to cry. 101<br />
The Messenger of <strong>Al</strong>laah ﷺ said to me: ❝Turn around.❞ So I turned around and I<br />
told him my story as I have told it to you, O Ibn `Abbaas. The Messenger of <strong>Al</strong>laah<br />
ﷺ wanted his Companions to hear that.”<br />
Then Salmaan was so engaged at his work as a slave that he missed participation with<br />
the Messenger of <strong>Al</strong>laah ﷺ at the battles of Badr and Uḥud. Salmaan said: “Then the<br />
Messenger of <strong>Al</strong>laah ﷺ said to me: ❝Draw up a contract of manumission, O<br />
Salmaan.❞ So I wrote out for my master an agreement (for my manumission) in return<br />
for three hundred palm trees which I would plant for him, and forty Uqiyahs (unit of<br />
weight in silver). The Messenger of <strong>Al</strong>laah ﷺ said to his Companions: ❝Help your<br />
brother.❞<br />
So they helped me with the palm trees, one man gave thirty seedlings and another<br />
gave twenty, and another gave fifteen, and another gave ten, i.e., each man gave<br />
according to what he had until they had collected three hundred seedlings for me.<br />
Then the Messenger of <strong>Al</strong>laah ﷺ said to me: ❝Go, O Salmaan, and dig the holes for<br />
their plantation. When you have finished, come to me so that I can plant them with<br />
101 [TN: Some mistranslated this sentence to say that “Salmaan fell down in tears and began to kiss the Prophet’s<br />
feet and made Sujood (prostrated) to him.” This is a clear error in the translation]<br />
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