Tarikh (al-Tabari) 697
The reports of the Jewish rabbis, Christian monks, and soothsayers and their glad tidings of the sending of the Beloved of the Most Merciful ﷺ
[ أَمْرُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ لِسَلْمَانَ بِالْمُكَاتَبَةِ لِيَخْلُصَ مِنْ الرِّقِّ ] قَالَ سَلْمَانُ: ثُمَّ قَالَ لِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ: كَاتِبْ يَا سَلْمَانُ؛ فَكَاتَبْتُ صَاحِبِي عَلَى ثَلَاثِ ماِئَةِ نَخْلَةٍ أُحْيِيهَا لَهُ بِالْفَقِيرِ، وَأَرْبَعِينَ أُوقِيَّةً. فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لِأَصْحَابِهِ: أَعِينُوا أَخَاكُمْ، فَأَعَانُونِي بِالنَّخْلِ، الرَّجُلُ بِثَلَاثِينَ وَدِيَّةً، وَالرَّجُلُ بِعِشْرِينَ وَدِيَّةً، وَالرَّجُلُ بِخَمْسَ عَشْرَةَ وَدِيَةً، وَالرَّجُلُ بِعَشْرٍ، يُعِينُ الرَّجُلُ بِقَدْرِ مَا عِنْدَهُ، حَتَّى اجْتَمَعَتْ لِي ثَلَاثُ ماِئَةِ وَدِيَّةٍ، فَقَالَ لِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ: اذْهَبْ يَا سَلْمَانُ فَفَقِّرْ لَهَا، فَإِذَا فَرَغْتَ فَأْتِنِي أَكُنْ أَنَا أَضَعُهَا بِيَدَيَّ. قَالَ: فَفَقَّرْتُ وَأَعَانَنِي أَصْحَابِي، حَتَّى إذَا فَرَغْتُ جِئْتُهُ فَأَخْبَرْتُهُ، فَخَرَجَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ مَعِي إلَيْهَا، فَجَعَلْنَا نُقَرِّبُ إلَيْهِ الْوَدِيَّ، وَيَضَعُهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ بِيَدِهِ، حَتَّى فَرَغْنَا. فَوَاَلَّذِي نَفْسُ سَلْمَانَ بِيَدِهِ. مَا مَاتَتْ مِنْهَا وَدِيَّةٌ وَاحِدَةٌ. قَالَ: فَأَدَّيْتُ النَّخْلَ وَبَقِيَ عَلَيَّ الْمَالُ. فَأُتِيَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ بِمِثْلِ بَيْضَةِ الدَّجَاجَةِ مِنْ ذَهَبٍ، مِنْ بَعْضِ الْمَعَادِنِ، فَقَالَ: مَا فَعَلَ الْفَارِسِيُّ الْمُكَاتَبُ ؟ قَالَ: فَدُعِيتُ لَهُ، فَقَالَ خُذْ هَذِهِ، فَأَدِّهَا مِمَّا عَلَيْكَ يَا سَلْمَانُ قَالَ: قُلْتُ: وَأَيْنَ تَقَعُ هَذِهِ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ مِمَّا عَلَيَّ ؟ فَقَالَ: خُذْهَا فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ سَيُؤَدِّي بِهَا عَنْكَ. قَالَ: فَأَخَذْتهَا فَوَزَنْتُ لَهُمْ مِنْهَا، وَاَلَّذِي نَفْسُ سَلْمَانَ بِيَدِهِ أَرْبَعِينَ أُوقِيَّةً، فَأَوْفَيْتُهُمْ حَقَّهُمْ مِنْهَا، وَعَتَقَ سَلْمَانُ. فَشَهِدْتُ مَعَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ الْخَنْدَقَ حُرًّا، ثُمَّ لَمْ يَفُتْنِي مَعَهُ مَشْهَدٌ قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي يَزِيدُ بْنُ أَبِي حَبِيبٍ. عَنْ رَجُلٍ مِنْ عَبْدِ الْقَيْسِ عَنْ سَلْمَانَ: أَنَّهُ قَالَ: لَمَّا قُلْتُ: وَأَيْنَ تَقَعُ هَذِهِ مِنْ الَّذِي عَلَيَّ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ؟ أَخَذَهَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ فَقَلَّبَهَا عَلَى لِسَانِهِ، ثُمَّ قَالَ: خُذْهَا فَأَوْفِهِمْ مِنْهَا، فَأَخَذْتهَا، فَأَوْفَيْتهمْ مِنْهَا حَقَّهُمْ كُلَّهُ، أَرْبَعِينَ أُوقِيَّةً.
Translation
✧ [The command of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ to Salman to enter a contract of emancipation to free himself from slavery] Salman said: Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to me: "Enter a contract of emancipation, O Salman." So I contracted with my master for three hundred date palm seedlings that I would plant for him at al-Faqir, and forty uqiyyahs. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to his companions: "Help your brother." So they helped me with the seedlings: one man with thirty offshoots, another with twenty offshoots, another with fifteen offshoots, and another with ten; each man helped according to what he had, until three hundred offshoots were gathered for me. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to me: "Go, O Salman, and dig the holes for them. When you are finished, come to me, and I will place them with my own hands." He said: So I dug the holes, and my companions helped me. When I had finished, I came to him and told him. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ went out with me to them, and we began handing the offshoots to him, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ placed them with his own hand, until we had finished. By Him in whose hand is the soul of Salman, not a single offshoot of them died. He said: Then I delivered the palms, and the money remained owed by me. Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was brought something like a chicken's egg of gold from some mine. He said: "What has the Persian who contracted emancipation done?" He said: So I was summoned to him, and he said: "Take this and pay what you owe with it, O Salman." He said: I said: "Where will this fall, O Messenger of Allah, compared to what I owe?" He said: "Take it, for Allah will fulfill it for you." He said: So I took it and weighed out for them from it, and by Him in whose hand is the soul of Salman, forty uqiyyahs. So I paid them their due from it, and Salman was freed. Then I witnessed the Trench with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ as a free man, and after that no expedition with him passed me by. Ibn Ishaq said: Yazid b. Abi Habib narrated to me, from a man of ʿAbd al-Qays, from Salman, that he said: When I said, "Where will this fall compared to what I owe, O Messenger of Allah?", the Messenger of Allah ﷺ took it and turned it over on his tongue, then said: "Take it and pay them from it." So I took it and paid them their full due from it, forty uqiyyahs.
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