The word · History
سَلْمَانُ الفَارِسِيّ
Salman al-Farisi
A Persian who searched through two religions for the truth and was enslaved before finding it.
Also written · Salman the Persian · Salman Farsi · Salman al-Farsi · Selman-i Farisi · Salman e Farsi · Salman Pak · Salmaan · Salman al Farisi · Suleiman the Persian · Salman ul Farsi
The meaning
What Salman al-Farisi means in Islam
He left his father's fire worship for Christianity, served a succession of monks, and was told by the last of them that a prophet was about to appear in a land of date palms. On the way he was betrayed and sold as a slave into Madinah, where he recognised the signs he had been described. The Companions helped him buy his freedom. At the Trench it was his suggestion, unknown to the Arabs, that saved the city, and the Prophet is reported to have said Salman is of us, the people of the house.
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Read beside it
Rooms that name it
- He crossed three countries looking for one manA Light · Salman al-Farisi · Persia to Madinah
- A Persian idea kept ten thousand men out of MadinahA Light · The Trench, Madinah · 627 CE
Words that sit beside it
- KhandaqThe siege of Madinah in year five, met by digging a trench across the city's open side.الخَنْدَق
- MadinahThe oasis city that took the Prophet in, where he governed, died and is buried.المَدِينَة
- SahabahThe Companions: anyone who met the Prophet as a believer and died still believing.الصَّحَابَة
- Ahl al-BaytThe Prophet's household, honoured by all Muslims, though the schools draw its boundary differently.أَهْلُ البَيْت
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- Hijr Isma'ilThe low semicircular wall beside the Ka'bah, enclosing ground that is part of the original house.حِجْرُ إِسْمَاعِيل
- Imam ash-Shafi'iThe imam who wrote the first book on how law is derived, bridging Madinah and Iraq.مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ الشَّافِعِيّ
- KhilafahSuccession to the Prophet in governing the community, not in prophethood, which ended with him.الخِلَافَة
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