Ibn Abbās said to me and to his son (1): ‘Go to Abū Saīd and listen to his narrations.’ So we went and found him tending an orchard. He took up his cloak, wrapped it around his bent legs, and began narrating to us until he came to the account of the building of the mosque. He said:
‘We used to carry one brick at a time, while Ammār carried two at a time. Allah’s Messenger—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—saw him and began brushing the dust off him, saying:
“Alas for Ammār! The rebellious faction will kill him. He will call them to Paradise, while they will call him to Hellfire.”
He added, “Ammār would say: ‘I seek refuge with Allah from tribulations.’”’”
Al-Bukhari also narrated it through another route 4 (2), from Ikrima, from Abū Saīd al-Khudrī (3). However, in many copies the hadith is not cited in full; rather, they contain:
“Alas for Ammār! He will call them to Paradise, while they will call him to Hellfire.”
Yet hadith scholars do not differ that this addition is part of the hadith.
Abū Bakr al-Bayhaqī and others said:
“More than one narrator related it from Khālid al-Hadhdhā, from Ikrima, from Ibn Abbās—may Allah be pleased with them both.”
Al-Bayhaqī and others assumed that al-Bukhari had not included the addition, and explained this on the grounds that this addition had not been heard by