Hadhrat Salmaan (Radhiyallahu Anhu) on his death-bed

When Hadhrat Salmaan (Radhiyallahu Anhu) was at the point of death, he began to weep and cry. Someone said to him, “Why do you cry? After death you will meet Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam). Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) left this world in the condition that he was pleased with you.” Hadhrat Salmaan (Radhiyallahu Anhu) replied, “I am not weeping for fear of death, nor because I am leaving the world. What makes me cry is that we had taken a covenant with Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam), that we would use the things of this world to the extent of a traveller who suffices on the bare minimum to allow him to complete his journey, but I am concerned that I have not been able to fulfil what we have pledged.”

Yet when he passed away, he was found to possess what amounted to just ten Dirhams. Just imagine, this was all he possessed in the world, which he considered to be excessive. He then called for some musk, asked his wife to mix it with water and sprinkle it on his bed and then said, “I am expecting a group of visitors who are neither men nor jinn.” (i.e. a group of angels) (Fazaail Sadaqaat)