Ṣaḥābī
Salmān al-Fārisī
سَلْمَان الْفَارِسِي
The Persian seeker
d. c. 656 CE. Persian by origin. Sought the truth across Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and finally Islam. Proposed the trench at the Battle of the Khandaq.
Classical sources
Bukhārī 4104 · Ṭabarānī, al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr
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