is sound, and it has a corroborating support from another chain. Aḥmad likewise transmitted it—on the authority of Abū Hurayrah—who said:

“The shepherd was a Jew, then he accepted Islam. He went on to say, ‘Even more amazing than this is a man standing among the palm-groves between the two lava plains who tells you what has already happened and what will occur after you.’”

The two Ṣaḥīḥs relate—through Anas—that:

“There was a sudden alarm in Madinah, so the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, borrowed a horse belonging to Abū Ṭalḥah, a horse that used to lag behind. When he returned he said, ‘We found this horse of yours to be like an endless sea,’ and thereafter no other mount could outstrip it.”

The two Ṣaḥīḥs also report—from Salamah ibn al-Akwaʿ and Sahl ibn Saʿd—