“Put it back; we only invited you so that you might eat. Why would you wish the reward to go to someone else while the liability rests on you? (1)”

Sulaymān ibn Qarm narrated, on the authority of al-Aʿmash, from Abū Wāʾil, who said:
“I went with a companion of mine to visit Salman. He said, ‘Had not the Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbidden us from affectation, I would have gone to some trouble for you.’ He then brought us bread and salt. My companion remarked, ‘If only there were some thyme for our salt.’ Salman thereupon sent off his miṭharah (ablution vessel), pawned it, and returned with thyme. When we had eaten, my companion said, ‘Praise be to Allah who has satisfied us with what He has provided.’ Salman replied, ‘Had you truly been content, my miṭharah would not now be in pawn.’ (2)

Al-Aʿmash narrated, from ʿUbayd ibn Abī al-Jaʿd, from a man of the Ashjaʿ tribe:
“When the people in al-Madāʾin heard that Salman was in the mosque, they flocked to him until nearly a thousand gathered. He rose and began his recitation with Sūrah Yūsuf, and they started to drift away until only about a hundred remained. Angered, he said, ‘Is it mere ornament they are after?—a verse from this sūrah and a verse from that one!’ (3)

Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit narrated, from Nāfiʿ ibn Jubayr:
“Salman was looking for a place to pray. A foreign woman said to him, ‘Seek a pure heart, and pray wherever you wish.’ He replied, ‘You have understood.’ (4)

Sulaymān al-Taymī narrated, from Abū ʿUthmān, from Salman, who said:
“The wife of Pharaoh was being tortured; but whenever her tormentors left, the angels shaded her with their wings, and she would see her house in Paradise while she was—"