Abu Badr (1) al-Sakuni narrated: Qabus ibn Abi Zibyan reported from his father, from Salman, who said:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to me, “O Salman! Do not hate me, lest you abandon your religion.”

I replied, “May my father and mother be sacrificed for you! How could I ever dislike you (2) when Allah guided me through you?”

He said, “You dislike the Arabs, and by disliking them you dislike me (3).”

Qabus ibn Ḥasanah transmitted:

Al-Tirmidhi said: “Yahya ibn ʿUqbah ibn Abi al-ʿAyzar is counted among the weak narrators.” He related from Muhammad ibn Juhadah, from Anas, who said:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “I am the foremost of the children of Adam, and Salman is the foremost of the Persians (4).”

Ibn ʿUlayyah reported from Yunus ibn ʿUbayd, from al-Hasan, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Salman is the foremost of the Persians (5).” This report is mursal, yet its meaning is sound.

Ibn Abi Fudayk narrated: from Kathir ibn ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAwf (6), from his father, from his grandfather, that the Prophet ﷺ marked out the trench in the Year of the Confederates, and the Emigrants and the Helpers then argued among themselves over