from Hishām ibn Saʿīd ibn Zayd al-Anṣārī, from Shurahbīl, who reported that Abū Hurayrah used to fast on Mondays and Thursdays.⦗1⦘
ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn al-Mukhtār narrated—from Khālid, from ʿIkrimah—that Abū Hurayrah glorified Allah twelve thousand times each day, saying, “I offer tasbīḥ in a number equal to my blood-money.”⦗2⦘ ʿAbd al-Wārith transmitted the same report from Khālid.
Aḥmad ibn Hibat-Allāh told us, from al-Muʾayyad al-Ṭūsī; Hibat-Allāh al-Sindī told us; Saʿīd ibn Muḥammad told us; Zāhir ibn Aḥmad told us; Abū Isḥāq al-Hāshimī told us; Abū Muṣʿab al-Zuhrī narrated to us; Mālik narrated, from Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn Ḥalḥalah, from Ḥumayd ibn Mālik ibn Khuthaym, who said:
“I was sitting with Abū Hurayrah on his land in al-ʿAqīq when some people arrived and stayed with him. Ḥumayd continued: He said to me, ‘Go to my mother and say: “Your son sends you greetings of peace and asks you to feed us something.”’ She set three loaves on a dish, with a little oil and salt, placed it on my head, and I carried it to them.
When I put it before them, Abū Hurayrah declared ‘Allāhu akbar’ and said, ‘Praise be to Allah who has satisfied us with bread after our food had been nothing but the two black things—dates and water.’
The visitors did not eat anything of the food.
When they departed, he said, ‘Nephew, treat your sheep kindly: wipe the mucus from them, keep their pens pleasant, and pray near them, for they are among the beasts of Paradise. By Him in whose hand is my soul, a time is soon coming when…’