[Machine] We were with Salman on a journey, and he went and fulfilled his need. Then he came back and we said to him, "O Abu Abdullah, perform ablution perhaps we may ask you about a verse from the Quran." He replied, "Ask, for I do not touch it unless I am in a state of ritual purity." And indeed it is not touched except by the purified ones. So we asked him, and he recited to us before performing ablution.
كُنَّا مَعَ سَلْمَانَ فِي سَفَرٍ فَانْطَلَقَ فَقَضَى حَاجَتَهُ ثُمَّ جَاءَ فَقُلْنَا لَهُ يَا أَبَا عَبْدِ اللهِ تَوَضَّأْ لَعَلَّنَا نَسْأَلُكَ عَنْ آيٍ مِنَ الْقُرْآنِ فَقَالَ سَلُوا فَإِنِّي لَا أَمَسُّهُ وَإِنَّهُ {لَا يَمَسُّهُ إِلَّا الْمُطَهَّرُونَ} [الواقعة 79] فَسَأَلْنَاهُ فَقَرَأَ عَلَيْنَا قَبْلَ أَنْ يَتَوَضَّأَ