I add: ʿAlī ibn Thābit al-Jazarī also transmits this report from him.

Some of them said: “Al-Ṣalt, from Abū al-Aḥmar, from Abū Hurayrah.”(1)

Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn stated: “Al-Ṣalt ibn Quwayd relates from Abū Hurayrah; ʿAmmār ibn Muḥammad and ʿAlī ibn Thābit al-Jazarī narrated it to me from him.”

Ibn al-Mubārak—on the authority of Wuhaib ibn al-Ward, from Salm(2) ibn Bashīr—reported that Abū Hurayrah wept during his final illness, and someone asked him, “What makes you weep?”

He replied, “I do not weep over this worldly life of yours, but because of the length of my journey, the scantiness of my provisions, and because I stand on a slope that descends either to Paradise or to Hell, and I do not know to which of the two I will be taken.”(3)

Mālik—through al-Maqburī—related:

Marwān came in to visit Abū Hurayrah during his sickness and said, “May Allah grant you healing, Abū Hurayrah.”

He answered, “O Allah, I long to meet You, so long to meet me.”

The narrator said: “Marwān had not yet reached the people who keep bustards before Abū Hurayrah had died.”(4)

Al-Wāqidī said: Thābit ibn Qays narrated to us, from Thābit ibn Misḥal; he said: “He wrote—”