(5/237–238), and Ibn ʿAsākir in al-Tārīkh (17/220/2), all of them from Mālik, from Abū al-Zubayr al-Makkī, who was informed by Abū al-Ṭufayl ʿĀmir ibn Wāthilah that Muʿādh ibn Jabal informed him, saying:
“We set out with the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, on the expedition to Tabūk, and he would combine the prayers, praying noon and afternoon together, and sunset and nightfall together. Then, on one day, he delayed the prayer. He came out and prayed noon and afternoon together, then went in. Later he came out again and prayed sunset and nightfall together. Then he said: ‘Tomorrow, Allah willing, you will come to the spring of Tabūk. You will not reach it until the day is well advanced, so whoever among you arrives there must not touch any of its water until I come.’
“When we reached it, two men had preceded us to it. The spring was like a sandal strap, trickling with a little water. The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, asked them, ‘Have you touched any of its water?’ They replied, ‘Yes.’ The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, rebuked them and said to them whatever Allah willed him to say. Then they scooped from the spring with their hands, little by little, until it had collected in a vessel. The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, washed his hands and face in it, then poured it back into it, whereupon the spring flowed forth with abundant—or, he said, copious—water, until the people drew water from it. Then he said …” and he mentioned it.
The hadith was also narrated by Ibn Khuzaymah in his Ṣaḥīḥ (no. 968) and Ibn Ḥibbān (549), through Mālik with this chain.
1211 — “There are three whose supplication is not rejected: one who remembers Allah often, the supplication of the wronged person, and the just ruler.”
It was recorded by al-Bayhaqī in al-Shuʿab (2/399/1), through al-Bukhārī: ʿAbd Allah ibn Abī al-Aswad narrated to us; Ḥumayd ibn al-Aswad narrated to us; ʿAbd Allah ibn Saʿīd ibn Abī Hind narrated to us, from Sharīk ibn Abī Namir, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn Yasār, who said: I heard Abū Hurayrah relate from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said—and he then mentioned it.