2. The narration of Anas ibn Mālik

It has reached us from him through several routes, with his students differing over its chain in the following manner:

1. Al-Zuhrī transmits it from him, from Abū Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him).
2. Qatādah transmits it from him, from Mālik ibn Ṣaʿṣaʿah (may Allah be pleased with him).
3. Sharik ibn Abī Namr and Thābit al-Bunnānī transmit it from him directly—without any intermediary—from the Prophet ﷺ.

In the wording of each of these three routes there are details not found in the others, as al-Ḥāfiẓ [Ibn Ḥajar] noted in Fatḥ al-Bārī 1/460.

Let us therefore quote the version preserved by each of them, so that we can later gather whatever additional particulars they contain—provided the reports are sound. I say:

1. Al-Zuhrī, from Anas, said: Abū Dharr used to relate that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:

“The roof of my house in Mecca was split open, whereupon Gabriel descended, split open my chest, washed it with the water of Zamzam, then brought a golden basin filled with wisdom and faith, poured it into my chest, and sealed it back together.”