in al-Mada’in.

Shabāb, in another chain, stated that he died in the year 37 AH, but this is a mistake, for Salman did not live to witness the Battle of the Camel or the Battle of Ṣiffīn.

ʿAbbās ibn Yazīd al-Baḥrānī said:
“The scholars affirm that Salman lived three hundred and fifty years; as for two hundred and fifty of those, they are certain.”

Abū Nuʿaym al-Aṣbahānī said: “It is said that Salman’s original name was Māhawayh;
others say Māyah;
and others say Buhbūd ibn Badhkhashān ibn Ādharjashīsh, descended from Manūjahar the king (1).
It is also said that he was from the line of Āb the king.”

It is further reported that he passed away in the year 33 AH, in al-Mada’in.

He added: “The date on the deed of his emancipation is Monday, in Jumādā al-Ūlā, during the year of the Messenger of Allah’s migration ﷺ.
His owner who sold him was ʿUthmān ibn Ashhal al-Quraẓī, the Jew.

It is also said that he returned to Isfahan in the time of ʿUmar;
that he had a brother named Bashīr (2), a daughter in Isfahan whose descendants remained, and two daughters in Egypt;
and that he had a son named Kathīr.”

Everything from al-Baḥrānī’s statement up to this point is quoted from Kitāb al-Ṭawālāt by Abū Mūsā al-Ḥāfiẓ.

I have searched and found nothing reliable regarding his age except al-Baḥrānī’s remark, and that is disconnected, lacking a chain of transmission.

Moreover, the totality of his life—his circumstances, campaigns, energy, movements, his scorn for mere palm-fronds, and the other details already mentioned—shows that he was neither extremely long-lived nor enfeebled with age. He left his homeland while still a youth, and he probably arrived in the Ḥijāz at about forty years of age, or less; he had barely settled there when he heard of the Prophet’s mission ﷺ, then