Ayyūb al-Tamīmī narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr al-Bazzār narrated to us; Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn al-Faḍl al-Ḥarrānī narrated to us; al-Walīd ibn al-Muhallab al-Ḥarrānī narrated to us; al-Naḍr ibn Muḥriz narrated to us, from Muḥammad ibn al-Munkadir, from Anas ibn Mālik who said:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ delivered a sermon to us while mounted on his she-camel al-ʿAḍbāʾ—she was not al-Jadʿāʾ—and said: “O people! It is as though death has been decreed for others but not for us, as though the obligation of truth were upon others but not upon us. It is as though those of the dead whom we escort are merely travellers who will soon return to us: we place them in their graves and then consume their estate, as though we ourselves will live forever after them. You have forgotten every admonition and feel safe from every calamity. Blessed is the one whose own fault keeps him occupied from fault-finding with his brother; who humbles himself before Allah without self-debasement; who spends of wealth he has acquired without disobedience; who mixes with the people of jurisprudence and wisdom and avoids the people of doubt and innovation; whose inner state is wholesome, whose outward conduct is upright, and from whose harm people remain safe (1).”

This hadith possesses a feeble chain of transmission. Concerning al-Naḍr, Abū Ḥātim said: “Unknown.” As for al-Walīd, he is unrecognised, and no sound chain is established for this text.

Aḥmad ibn Salāmah (2) informed us, with authorisation, from Masʿūd al-Jammāl; Abū ʿAlī al-Muqriʾ informed us; Abū Nuʿaym the ḥāfiẓ informed us; Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Ayyūb narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn ʿAmr al-Bazzār narrated to us; Ibrāhīm ibn Yūsuf al-Ṣayrafī al-Kūfī narrated to us; Abū Yaḥyā al-Taymī narrated to us; Sayf ibn Wahb, from Abū al-Ṭufayl, who said:

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “I am Muḥammad, I am Aḥmad, I am Abū al-Qāsim, I am al-Māḥī, and I am al-Ḥāshir.”