Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Muʿaddal informed us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad, the jurist, informed us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī informed us; Abū al-Faḍl ibn Khayrūn informed us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ghālib—according to his own recitation (1) before Abū al-ʿAbbās ibn Ḥamdān—related to you that Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb told you; Abū al-Walīd informed us; Shuʿbah informed us, from Abū Isḥāq; I heard Ṣilah ibn Zufar (2) relate from Ḥudhayfah:
that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Indeed, I am sending to you a man who is trustworthy.” The Companions of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ craned their necks to see, and he dispatched Abū ʿUbaydah ibn al-Jarrāḥ (3).
The two Imams concur on this report through the transmission of Shuʿbah.
They likewise concur on the report transmitted by Khālid al-Ḥadhdhāʾ, from Abū Qilābah, from Anas, that the Prophet ﷺ said, “Every community has a trustee, and the trustee of this community is Abū ʿUbaydah ibn al-Jarrāḥ (4).”
Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Muʿallim informed us; Abū al-Qāsim ibn Rawāḥah informed us; Abū Ṭāhir the ḥāfiẓ informed us; Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Ṣūfī, Abū Ghālib al-Bāqillānī, and a group narrated to us; they said:
Abū al-Qāsim ibn Bishrān informed us; Abū Muḥammad al-Fākihī in Mecca narrated to us; Abū Yaḥyā ibn Abī Maysarah narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿĪsā al-Wāsiṭī informed us; Yaḥyā ibn Abī Zakariyyā narrated to us; ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUthmān ibn Khuthaym narrated to us, from Abū al-Zubayr, from Jābir, who said, “I was—”