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Salman and His Story

The Beginning

No one can tell the story of Salman better than he himself. Salman narrated his story to one of the copanions and a closerelative of the Prophet Muhammad -peace of Allah be upon him- by the name of Adullah bin 'Abbaas, who in turn narrated it to others.1 Ibn 'Abbaas said,
Salman said, "I was a Persian man from the pople of Isfahaan 2 from a town know as Jayi. My father was the town chief. To him, I was the most beloved creature of Allah. His love for me reached the point to which he trusted me to supervise the fire5 he lit. He would not let it die down."
This is an indication of good behavior of a son towards his father. Here Sallman used the correct name of the true God, Allah. The name Allah is the same name used by all of the Prophets and Messengers. Allah is the same name of God in the Aramaic language of our beloved Prophet Jesus.
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1This hadeeth was related in the 'Musnad' of Imaam Ahmed.
2Isfahaan: A Region in northwest Iran.
3His father was a Magean who worshipped fire.