Hadith 148

The safety! The safety! I know I did not say except truth’. There it was, as a bow in his-asws hand, and there was neither anymore serpent over there nor anything. I did not cease to be cautious of him-asws and fearing him-asws up to this day of mine’. Salman-ra said, ‘I-ra laughed and said, ‘By Allah-azwj! I-ra have not heard wonders the like of these’. He said, ‘O Abu Abdullah! This is what I saw, with these two eyes of mine, and had I not raised the decency in what is between me and you-ra, I would not have been the one to inform you with this’. Salman-ra said, ‘I-ra ignored him upon it and said, ‘Have you seen any sorcery from him-asws other than what you informed me-ra with? ’ He said, ‘Yes, if I were to narrate to you-ra, you-ra would remain bewildered from it, and I am not saying, O Abu Abdullah, this is the sorcery which he-asws is manifesting. No, by Allah-azwj! But, he-asws inherited it as an inheritance’. I-ra said, ‘How? ’
He said, ‘My father informed me that he was from his-asws father-as Abu Talib-asws, and from Abdullah-as, such sorcery, he had not heard the like of it, and my father mentioned that his father Nufeyla informed him that he saw sorcery from Abdul Muttalib-asws, he had not heard the like of it’. Salman-ra said, ‘I-ra said, ‘Narrate to me-ra with what your father heard? ’ He said, ‘Yes, my father informed me that he went out with Abu Talib-asws in a journey intending Syria along with Quraysh traders, going out from the year to the year, once. They gathered a lot of wealth and there did not happen to be among the Arabs more traders than Quraysh. When they were in one of the roads, there was a group of Bedouin bandits peculiarly weaponised, nothing was seen from them except the evil intentions. When their matter appeared to our state and we were alarmed and the shouting occurred in the caravan, and every person was pre-occupied with himself intending to save himself only; and a mighty matter presented to us and we gathered and we determined upon the battle. We passed by Abu Talib-asws and he-as was seated. We said, ‘O Abu Talib-asws! Do you-asws not see what has presented to us, why don’t you-asws save yourself-asws with us? ’ He-asws said, ‘Where will we run to in this wilderness? ’ We said, ‘So what is the means? ’ He-asws said: ‘The means is that we should enter this island and stay in it, and we should gather our belongings and our animals and our wealth in it’. He said, ‘We remained confused and we said, ‘Perhaps he-as has gone mad and is panicking from what has befallen with him-as’. We said, ‘Woe be unto you-as! And is there any island for us over here? ’ He-as said, ‘Yes’. We said, ‘Where is it? ’ He-as said: ‘Look in front of you’. He said, ‘We looked and there, by Allah-azwj, was a large island, the people had not see