Ash-Shama'il al-Muhammadiyah 21

Translation

“Salman al-Farisi brought Allah’s Messenger ﷺ, when he reached Medina, a table with ripe dates upon it, and he placed it in front of Allah’s Messenger ﷺ, so he said: ‘O Salman, what is this?’ He replied: A charitable gift for you and for your Companions’ ‘Take it away,’ said the Prophet, ‘for we will not eat a charitable gift.’ He therefore took it away. Then he came the next day with the like of it, and placed it in front of Allah’s Messenger ﷺ, who said: ‘What is this, O Salman?’ He replied: ‘A present for you,’ so Allah’s Messenger ﷺ said to his Companions: ‘Spread out!’ Then Salman looked at the Seal on the back of Allah’s Messenger ﷺ, so he believed in him. He was a slave of the Jews, however, so Allah’s Messenger ﷺ purchased his freedom at such-and-such a price of silver coin, on condition that he [the Prophet] would plant date palms for them, and Salman would work on them until they bore edible fruit. Allah’s Messenger ﷺ then planted the date palms, apart from one date palm that 'Umar planted. The date palms then bore their annual crop, but one date palm did not bear fruit, so Allah’s Messenger said ﷺ: ‘What is the matter with this date palm?’ 'Umar said: ‘O Messenger of Allah, I planted it!’ Allah’s Messenger ﷺ therefore uprooted it and replanted it, so it bore its annual crop."

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Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 23738Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 37684al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 18859al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 21665

Narrators

1. 1
   Buraydah b. al-Ḥuṣayb al-Aslamī

   Companion (ṣaḥābī), who accepted Islam before Badrd. 62 AH, or 63 AH
   بُرَيْدَة بْن الْحُصَيْب الْأَسْلَمِيّصحابي ، أسلم قبل بدر
   سمعت
2. 2
   ʿAbdullāh b. Buraydah

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 105 AH, or 115 AH
   عَبْدُ اللهِ بْنُ بُرَيْدَةَثقة
   حدثني
3. 3
   al-Ḥusayn b. Wāqid

   Trustworthy (thiqah), with some errors (awhām)d. 159 AH, also said: 157 AH
   أَبِيثقة ، له أوهام
   حدثني
4. 4
   ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn b. Wāqid

   truthful (ṣadūq), prone to error (yahim)d. 211 AH, also said: 212 AH
   عَلِيُّ بْنُ حُسَيْنِ بْنِ وَاقِدٍصدوق يهم
   حدثنا
5. 5
   al-Ḥusayn b. Ḥurayth

   trustworthy (thiqah)d. 244 AH
   أَبُو عَمَّارٍ الْحُسَيْنُ بْنُ حُرَيْثٍ الْخُزَاعِيُّثقة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   al-Tirmidhī

   trustworthy, a memorizer (thiqah ḥāfiẓ)d. 279 AH, in Ikmāl al-Tahdhīb: 275 AH
   التِّرْمِذِيُّثقة حافظ

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