Sirat Ibn Hisham 249
The Messenger's ﷺ instruction to Salmān to enter into a manumission contract to gain his freedom
[ 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. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي عَاصِمُ بْنُ عُمَرَ بْنِ قَتَادَةَ، قَالَ: حَدَّثَنِي مَنْ لَا أَتَّهِمُ عَنْ عُمَرَ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْعَزِيزِ بْنِ مَرْوَانَ قَالَ: حُدِّثْتُ عَنْ سَلْمَانَ الْفَارِسِيِّ: أَنَّهُ قَالَ:
Translation
✧ [The Messenger of Allah's ﷺ command to Salmān to enter into a manumission contract so that he might be free of slavery] Salmān said: Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to me: Enter into a manumission contract, O Salmān. So I contracted with my master for three hundred date-palm offshoots that I would bring to life for him at al-Faqīr, and forty ūqiyyahs. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to his Companions: Help your brother. So they helped me with the offshoots: one man with thirty offshoots, another with twenty, another with fifteen, another with ten—each man helping according to what he had—until three hundred offshoots were gathered for me. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to me: Go, O Salmān, and dig the holes for them. When you are done, come to me, and I will plant them with my own hands. He said: So I dug the holes and my companions helped me until I finished. Then I went to him and informed him. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ came out with me to them, and we began handing the offshoots to him, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ planted them with his own hand until we finished. By the One in whose hand is Salmān's soul, not a single offshoot of them died. He said: I delivered the date-palms, but the money remained owed by me. Then the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was brought something like a chicken's egg of gold from some mines, and he said: What has the Persian mukātab done? He said: I was called to him, and he said: Take this and pay off what you owe with it, O Salmān. He said: I said: And where does this fall, O Messenger of Allah, in relation to what I owe? He said: Take it, for Allah will pay it off on your behalf with it. He said: I took it and weighed out for them from it—by the One in whose hand is Salmān's soul—forty ūqiyyahs, and I paid them their due from it, and Salmān was freed. Then I witnessed the Trench with the Messenger of Allah ﷺ as a free man, and no battle with him passed me by after that. Ibn Isḥāq said: Yazīd b. Abī Ḥabīb narrated to me, from a man of ʿAbd al-Qays, from Salmān, that he said: When I said: And where does this fall in relation 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 entire due from it—forty ūqiyyahs. Ibn Isḥāq said: ʿĀṣim b. ʿUmar b. Qatādah narrated to me, saying: One whom I do not suspect narrated to me, from ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Marwān, saying: I was told from Salmān al-Fārisī that he said:
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