Salman the Persian
Companion of Muhammad; first Persian convert to Islam
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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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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…
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