he had reeled off two thousand nine hundred odes, whereupon the caliph ordered that he be given one hundred thousand dirhams. It is also said that Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik was the one who presented him with the hundred thousand.
54 – Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Ḥudayr ibn Saʿīd al-Ḥaḍramī * (M, 4)
He is the son of Saʿd ibn Fihr al-Ḥaḍramī, an Imām, ḥadīth master, and reliable authority, the judge of al-Andalus, known as Abū ʿAmr and also as Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ḥaḍramī, from Ḥimṣ in greater Syria.
Abū al-Fidāʾ Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAmr ibn al-Munādī narrated to us; he was informed by ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad the jurist; who was informed by Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Bāqī; who was informed by Rizq Allāh al-Tamīmī; who was informed by ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Muʿaddal; who was informed by Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr; who related from Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Sulamī; who related from Abū Ṣāliḥ; who said: Muʿāwiyah ibn Ṣāliḥ told me, from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd, from ʿAmrah, from ʿĀʾishah:
She was asked, “What did the Messenger of Allah ﷺ do in his house?” She replied, “He was an ordinary man: he would pick the lice from his clothes, milk his ewe, and serve himself.” (1)
This ḥadīth possesses a sound chain of transmission.
Abū ʿĪsā al-Tirmidhī recorded it in the book al-Shamāʾil, through Abū Ismāʿīl al-Sulamī—his fellow townsman—and we have matched his narration with an even higher chain.
Muʿāwiyah satisfies the criteria set by Muslim.