Salman the Persian
Companion of Muhammad; first Persian convert to Islam · Writers · Lived 568 to 657 · aged 89
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Something wrong?A Persian scholar who crossed empires in search of truth, ending up in the inner circle of the Prophet Muhammad and credited with the defensive strategy that saved early Islam's first city from siege.
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Salman the Persian and his religious instructor
Mosque Salaman pharsi, battle of trench, Medina
Portrait of Prophet Muhammad, Imam 'Ali and His Sons and His Closest Companions MET LC-2020 362
Salman al-Farisi Masjid an-Nabawi Calligraphy
Salman expelled
The Druze maqam of Salman the Persian
تخطيط اسم سلمان الفارسيAbout this person
Born Ruzbeh Khoshnudan, he trained as a Zoroastrian magus before restlessness sent him traveling across Western Asia, seeking dialogue with faiths not his own. That search ended in Medina, where he met Muhammad and converted to Islam. Muhammad counted him family - "Salman is part of my Ahlul-Bayt," he told the gathered faithful - and the Persian became one of the Prophet's closest companions despite being an outsider in an Arab movement. In 627, with the Quraysh army marching from Mecca to besiege the city, Salman proposed digging a massive trench around Yathrib, borrowing a Sasanian military tactic; the defense held. After Muhammad's death in 632, he aligned with Ali ibn Abi Talib and joined the campaigns that carried the Rashidun Caliphate into Persia itself.
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