—Abū Ṣāliḥ, on the authority of al-Asadī, from a man who related to him, said:
“I passed by Abū Dharr at al-Rabadhah, and he told me that he had heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: ‘Among those of my community who love me the most will be people who come after me; each of them would gladly give up his family and his wealth just to see me.’ (1) Singular.
201 – al-Darābjirdī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Mūsā * (D)
The imām, exemplar, ḥadith scholar, and trustworthy authority: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Abī ʿĪsā Mūsā ibn Maysarah al-Hilālī, al-Khurasānī, al-Darābjirdī (2).
He performed the pilgrimage and met Sufyān ibn ʿUyaynah, though he did not transmit from him, and he offered the funeral prayer for him.
This is how al-Ḥākim recorded it in his History with a chain of transmission, yet Sufyān did not die during the pilgrimage season; rather, he passed away in the middle of the year.
He heard ḥadith from: Ḥaramiyy ibn ʿUmārah; Yaʿlā ibn ʿUbayd; Abū Jābir Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik; Abū ʿĀṣim al-Nabīl; ʿAbd al-Majīd ibn Abī Rawwād; ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Ibrāhīm al-Juddi (3); Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Muqriʾ; and ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Walīd.
(1) All of the transmitters are reliable except al-Asadi, the narrator who reports from Abu Dharr; he is unknown. Muslim also recorded the hadith in his Sahih (no. 2832), Book of Paradise, chapter “Those who would give their family and wealth to see the Prophet”, through the chain: Qutaybah b. Saʿid – Yaʿqub b. ʿAbd al-Rahman – Suhayl b. Abi Salih – Abu Salih – Abu Hurayrah. The Messenger of Allah said: “Those who will love me most in my community are people who will come after me; each of them would wish to see me even at the cost of his family and wealth.”
Principal biographical sources: Ibn Abi Hatim, al-Jarh wa l-taʿdil 6:181; Abu Nuʿaym, Hilyat al-awliya 10:143–144; al-Samʿani, al-Ansab 5:292; al-Mizzi, Tahdhib al-kamal, no. 963; Ibn Hajar, Tadhhib al-tahdhib 3:56 §2; al-Dhahabi, Tadhkirat al-huffaz 2:529; Ibn Hajar, Tahdhib al-tahdhib 7:299–300; Ibn Taghribirdi, al-Nujum al-zahirah 3:43; Ibn ʿAbd al-Rahim, Khulasat tadhhib al-kamal, p. 272; Ibn al-Jawzi, al-Muntazam 5:60.
(2) al-Dirabjardi: spelled d-r-a-b-j-r-d; the nisba refers to Dirabjard, a quarter of Nishapur that is also called Dar Abjard, with an alif following the dal.
(3) al-Jaddi, with an initial jim pronounced with ḍamma and a doubled dal with kasra, is the nisba for Jeddah, the coastal city adjacent to Mecca.