Salman fell ill, and Saad came to visit him. He saw him weeping and asked, "What makes you weep, my brother? Did you not accompany the Messenger of Allah ﷺ? Did you not? Did you not?"Salman replied, "I am not weeping for either of two reasons. I am not weeping out of love for this world, nor out of dislike for the next. Rather, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ gave me a charge, and I see that I have exceeded it."Saad asked, "What did he charge you with?"Salman said, "He charged me that what suffices any one of you should be like the provision of a traveler, and I see that I have gone beyond that. As for you, Saad, fear Allah when you judge as you pass judgment, when you divide as you apportion, and when you resolve as you set your mind to a matter."Thabit said, "It reached me that he left behind nothing but some twenty-odd dirhams from a small sum he had with him."
اشتكى سلمان فعاده سعد، فرآه يبكي، فقال له سعد: ما يبكيك يا أخي؟ أليس قد صحبت رسول الله ﷺ أليس؟ أليس؟ قال سلمان: ما أبكي واحدة من اثنتين، ما أبكي حبا للدنيا، ولا كراهية للآخرة، ولكن رسول الله ﷺ عهد إلى عهدا، فما أراني إلا قد تعديت، قال: وما عهد إليك؟ قال: عهد إلى: أنه يكفي أحدكم مثل زاد الراكب، ولا أراني إلا قد تعديت، وأما أنت يا سعد فاتق الله عند حكمك إذا حكمت، وعند قسمك إذا قسمت، وعند همك إذا هممت قال ثابت: فبلغني أنه ما ترك إلا بضعة وعشرين درهما، من نفيقة كانت عنده.
Ibn Majah (4104), Tabarani in Al-Kabir (6/279), and Abu Naeem in Al-Hilyah (1/197) all narrated it through the route of Hasan bin Abu Rabi, who said, "Abdul-Razzaq narrated to us, Jafar bin Sulayman narrated to us, from Thabit, from Anas," and he mentioned it. Its chain is hasan because of Hasan bin Abu Rabi, who is Hasan bin Yahya bin Jad Abdi Jurjani, and Jafar bin Sulayman Dubai, for both of them make the hadith hasan.Salman died in the year thirty-five, though it is also said thirty-six. As for his age, it is said that he exceeded two hundred and fifty, and it is also said three hundred and fifty. These statements were mentioned without any reliable basis. Neither Ibn Qani nor Ibn Abdul-Barr mentioned it. Rather, it was mentioned by Ibn Manda in Marifat Sahabah and Abu Naeem in Marifat Sahabah, without any basis. In fact, they both said that he lived to reach Jesus . All of this is far-fetched, for if we suppose that he lived three hundred and fifty years, then between him and the guardian of Jesus
there would be three hundred years.For this reason Dhahabi said that he did not exceed eighty years, and had this claim been correct, the reports from the companions and the successors would have been transmitted in abundance, and it would have been counted among the extraordinary marvels. Hence Dhahabi, after quoting from Bahrani that he lived three hundred and fifty years, said, "I searched but found nothing regarding his age except the statement of Bahrani, and that is disconnected with no chain of transmission to it." Then he said, "Perhaps he lived somewhere in his seventies, and I do not think he reached a hundred."Siyar Alam Nubala (1/555–556).