what you have been saying.” ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb rebuked them and said, “Do not raise your voices beside the pulpit of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ—it is Friday. When I have finished the Friday prayer, come in and I shall ask him about the point over which you differ.” Thereupon Allah revealed: “Do you consider the providing of water to the pilgrims and the maintenance of the Sacred Mosque as equal to the one who believes in Allah and the Last Day and strives in the path of Allah…?” (al-Tawbah 9:19).

50- ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān reported: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, “Guard duty (ribāṭ)[1] for one day in the path of Allah is better than a thousand days spent anywhere else.”
It was narrated by Imām Aḥmad and al-Nasāʾī—with this wording—by al-Tirmidhī, who said, “A ḥadīth that is ḥasan and gharīb through this chain,” and by Abū Ḥātim Ibn Ḥibbān al-Bustī in his Ṣaḥīḥ.2

51- In the wording recorded by Imām Aḥmad3: from Abū Ṣāliḥ, the freedman of ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān, who said: I heard ʿUthmān proclaim from the pulpit, “People! I have concealed from you a ḥadīth I heard from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, lest it lead to division among you…"