Hadith 148

n a seat, upon me were two forelocks and I had sent them on my right and my left’. Al Khattab said, ‘Dispersed from us’. Abu Talib-asws said, ‘Depart! ’ We departed and there was neither any island, nor ocean, nor water, and there we were upon the passageway and the road which we had not ceased to travel. We travelled and were finished off (from the danger) due to the sorcery of Abu Talib-asws until we arrived at Syria, happy, joyful. And Al-Khattab vowed that he had passed by the place exactly afterwards more than twenty times going to Syria but could neither see any island, nor ocean, nor any water’. And Quraysh vowed upon that, so is this, O Salman-ra, except ‘Continuous sorcery! ’ [54: 2]? ’
Salman-ra said, ‘I-ra said, ‘By Allah-azwj! I-ra do not know what to say to you except you have reported unto me-ra wonders from the matter of the Clan of Hashim-asws’. He said, ‘Yes, O Abu Abdullah! They are a family inheriting the sorcery, an elder from an elder! ’
Salman-ra said, ‘I-ra said, and I-ra wanted to cut the discussion, ‘I-ra do not see this as sorcery’. He said, ‘Glory be to Allah-azwj, O Abu Abdullah! You-ra see the lie of Al-Khattab and his companions, and you-ra see what I have narrated to you with from what I had witnessed with my eyes as a lie? ’
Salman-ra said, ‘I-ra laughed and said, ‘Woe be unto you! You neither lied, nor did Al-Khattab and his companions, lie, and this, all of it is truth and true’. He said, ‘By Allah-azwj! You-ra will not succeed, ever! And how can you-ra succeed, and the son-asws of Abu Talib-asws has bewitched you-ra? ’ I-ra said, ‘Leave this. What do you say regarding freeing the neck and the wealth which came to you from Khurasan? ’
He said, ‘Woe be unto you! Am I able to disobey this sorcerer regarding anything he-asws orders me with? Yes, I will free it (a slave) upon the rubbing of the nose from me, and I will direct the wealth to him-asws’. Salman-ra said, ‘I left from his presence. When Amir Al-Momineen-asws sighted me, he-asws said: ‘O Salman-ra! Your discussion was prolonged’. I-ra said, ‘O Amir Al-Momineen-asws! He narrated to me with the wonder from the matter of Al-Khattab and Abu Talib-asws’. He-asws said: ‘Yes, O Salman-ra! I-asws have known that and have heard the entirety of what flowed between the two of you, and what he said to you-ra as well, that you-ra will not succeed’. Salman-ra said, ‘By Allah-azwj, the One-azwj Who, there is no god except He-azwj! No one had attended the talk apart from me and him. My Master-asws Amir Al-Momineen-asws informed me with the entirety of what had flowed between me-ra and him’. Then he-asws said: ‘O Salman-ra! Return to him and take the wealth from him and go to the poor Emigrants and the Helpers in the Masjid of Rasool-Allah-saww, and distribute it to them’’. [114]