and by Him in whose hand is my soul, I shall surely drive people away from it just as a man wards a stray camel off his own watering-place.”

It was asked, “O Messenger of Allah, will you recognise us on that day?”

He replied, “Yes. You will come to me with faces radiant and limbs gleaming from the traces of wudu; no one else will possess that mark.”

This is a sound (ṣaḥīḥ) hadith.
It was recorded by Muslim (1) and by Ibn Mājah, through the narration of ʿUthmān—that is, Ibn Abī Shaybah.

129 – Ghunjār, ʿĪsā ibn Mūsā al-Bukhārī * (Kh, Q)

He was the hadith scholar of Bukhara, the shaykh, Abū Aḥmad ʿĪsā ibn Mūsā al-Bukhārī, nicknamed al-Azraq, known as Ghunjār.

He undertook journeys in pursuit of knowledge and was well versed in hadith.

He narrated from Sufyān al-Thawrī, ʿĪsā ibn ʿUbayd al-Kindī, Waraqāʾ ibn ʿUmar, Abū Ḥamzah al-Sukkarī, and many others.

Those who transmitted from him include Baḥīr ibn al-Naḍr, Muḥammad ibn Salām al-Bīkandī, Isḥāq ibn Ḥamzah al-Bukhārī, Muḥammad ibn Umayyah al-Sāwī, Muḥammad ibn al-Faḍl, and others.

Al-Ḥākim said, “He was the leading scholar of his time. He began studying hadith late in life, travelled in search of it, and in himself is truthful. I examined his transmissions from trustworthy narrators and found them sound. He reports from more than one hundred shaykhs who are unknown.”

I say: He has a muʿallaq (suspended) hadith in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, namely:

He narrated: “ʿĪsā…"