Then Abu Bakr arrived; the Prophet again said, “A man from the people of Paradise will now come to you.”

ʿUmar then appeared, and he repeated, “A man from the people of Paradise will now come to you.”

Jābir adds: “I saw him lower his head from beneath the trellis and heard him say, ‘O Allah, if You will, make it ʿAlī.’

ʿAlī duly came. The Ansari woman slaughtered a sheep for the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and prepared it; he ate and we ate. When the time for Ẓuhr arrived he rose and prayed, and we prayed with him without having performed ablution; when ʿAṣr came, he prayed again and we prayed, and neither he nor we had renewed our ablution.

This is a sound (ḥasan) hadith.

It was recorded by al-Tirmidhi (1) from ʿAbd, reporting from Zakariyya ibn ʿAdī.

144 – ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Maslama, Abu Marwān al-Umawī*

The jurist, Abu Marwān al-Umawī, their freedman, from Basra.

Born: 140 AH.

He studied under: Mālik, al-Layth, and others.

Those who narrated from him include: Sammuyah, al-Ḥasan ibn Qutaybah al-ʿAsqalānī, and Yaḥyā ibn ʿUthmān ibn Ṣāliḥ.

Declared weak by: Ibn Yūnus and Ibn Ḥibbān (2).

Yaḥyā ibn Bukayr said: “Ḥabīb was late, so Mālik said, ‘Let one of you read,’ and he read…”