It is narrated from Sayyiduna Salamah bin Akwa’ (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered a man from the tribe of Aslam on the day of ‘Ashura to announce among the people that whoever is fasting today should complete his fast, and whoever has eaten or drunk something should not eat anything further and should complete the fast until the end of its time.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Salamah bin Akwa’ (may Allah be pleased with him) that he asked the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) for permission to live in the wilderness, so the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) granted him permission.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Salamah bin Akwa’ (may Allah be pleased with him) that on the occasion of Hudaybiyyah, I pledged allegiance to the right hand of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) along with other people, and then sat aside. When the people dispersed from around the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), he said:“Ibn Akwa’! Why are you not pledging allegiance?”I said:“O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! I have already pledged allegiance.”The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:“Do it again.”The narrator asked:“On what did you pledge allegiance to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that day?”He replied:“On death.”

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Salamah bin Akwa’ (may Allah be pleased with him) that once I was sitting with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) when a funeral was brought. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked:“Did he leave behind any debt?”The people replied,“No.”The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked:“Did he leave any inheritance?”The people replied,“No.”The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) led his funeral prayer. Then another funeral was brought and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked the same:“Did he leave behind any debt?”The people replied,“No.”The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked:“Did he leave any inheritance?”The people replied,“Yes! Three dinars.”The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) gestured with his fingers and said:“Three marks of Hellfire.”Then a third funeral was brought and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked as before:“Did he leave behind any debt?”The people replied,“Yes!”Then he asked:“Did he leave any inheritance?”The people replied,“Yes!”Then he asked:“Did he leave any inheritance?”The people replied,“No.”The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:“Then you should offer the funeral prayer of your companion yourselves.”At this, an Ansari said:“O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! His debt is upon me.”So the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) led his funeral prayer as well.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Salamah bin Akwa’ (may Allah be pleased with him) that (my brother) ‘Amir was a poet. When he camped at a place, he began to recite these verses of Hadi:

“O Allah! If it were not for You, we would not have been guided,
We would not have given charity nor performed prayer.
We sacrifice for You; now that we have come, forgive us,
And grant us steadfastness when we face the enemy,
And send down tranquility upon us.
When we are called, we respond,
And people trust and rely on us just by calling out to us.”

The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked,“Who is the reciter of this Hadi?”The people replied,“It is Ibn Akwa’.”The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said,“May Allah have mercy on him.”Upon hearing this, a man said,“It has become obligatory, O Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)! Why did you not let us benefit from him?”The narrator says that in that very expedition, ‘Amir was martyred. He had advanced to kill a Jew, but the edge of his sword recoiled and struck his own knee, and thus he was martyred.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Salamah bin Akwa’ (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered a man from the tribe of Aslam on the day of ‘Ashura to announce among the people that whoever is fasting today should complete his fast, and whoever has eaten or drunk something should not eat or drink anything further and should complete the fast until the end of its time.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Salamah bin Akwa’ (may Allah be pleased with him) that when we were returning from Khaybar, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) saw some fires burning at various places. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked,“For what purpose have these fires been lit?”The people replied,“To cook the meat of domesticated donkeys.”The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said,“Turn over the pots and spill out whatever is in them.”One of the people asked,“O Messenger of Allah! Should we spill out what is in them and also wash the pots?”The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said,“Then what else?”

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Salamah bin Akwa’ (may Allah be pleased with him) that once I set out from Madinah Munawwarah to go to“Ghabah.”When I reached its summit, I met a slave of Sayyiduna Abdur Rahman bin Awf (may Allah be pleased with him). I asked him:“Hey, what’s the matter? (Why are you so anxious?)”He said:“The she-camels of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) have been snatched.”I asked:“Who has taken them?”He replied:“Abu Ghatfan and Banu Fazarah.”Upon this, I shouted“Ya Sabahah!”three times so loudly that my voice reached both ends of Madinah Munawwarah. Then I set off after them until I caught up with them. Indeed, they had seized the Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) she-camels. I began showering arrows upon them and reciting this verse:“I am the son of Akwa’, today is the day to strike fear into the enemies.”Eventually, I recovered those she-camels from them, while they had not yet even drunk water. Then I drove them back and set off for home. On the way, I met the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). I said:“O Messenger of Allah! (peace and blessings be upon him) Those people were still thirsty when I caught up with them before they could drink water, so you should set out after them.”The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:“O son of Akwa’! You have overpowered them (and recovered your property), now deal gently with them. Now, your people will be hosting those people as guests.”

Yazid bin Abu Ubaid says that once I saw a scar from a wound on the shin of Sayyiduna Salamah bin Akwa’. I asked him,“O Abu Muslim! What is this scar?”He replied,“I received this wound during the Battle of Khaybar. When I was struck, people said, ‘Salamah is finished.’ But then I was brought to the Prophet ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ), and the Prophet ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) blew on it three times, and since then I have never felt any pain from it again.”

Ibrahim ibn Mahdi narrated to us, he said: Hatim—meaning ibn Isma'il—narrated to us, from Yazid ibn Abi Ubaid, he said: I heard Salama ibn al-Akwa' say: I went out, and he mentioned something similar to the hadith of Makki, except that he said: "And today is the day of the suckling children," and he added in it: "And the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, mounted me behind him on his riding animal."