but while they were in that state, it was said: “He has not died, but has suffered severe wounds.” When night came, he could not bear his wounds and killed himself. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, was informed of this, and said: “Allah is the Greatest. I testify that I am Allah’s servant and His Messenger.” He then instructed Bilāl to proclaim among the people: “No one shall enter Paradise except a Muslim soul, and Allah supports this religion by means of a wicked man.”

It was recorded by al-Bukhārī (2/74), Muslim (1/73–74), and Aḥmad (2/309). Al-Dārimī also recorded from it the hadith cited under this heading (2/240–241). Al-Haythamī included the hadith in al-Majmaʿ (5/303) and said: “Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it, and its chain includes ʿĀṣim ibn Abī al-Najūd, who is trustworthy, though there has been some criticism of him.” He also said: “Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it from al-Nuʿmān ibn ʿAmr ibn Muqarrin, attributed to the Prophet, and marked it as doubtful. Yet it does not warrant such a mark, for it is correct. Al-Mizzī mentioned in the biography of Abū Khālid al-Wālibī that he narrated from ʿAmr ibn al-Nuʿmān ibn Muqarrin and from al-Nuʿmān ibn Muqarrin.”

I say: Its narrators are trustworthy.

The hadith has also been narrated from another group of Companions with the wording: “...by people who have no share [of good].” Al-Haythamī cited its reports from Abū Bakrah, Anas, and Abū Mūsā. ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad recorded it in Zawāʾid al-Zuhd (20/100/1) from al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī as a mursal report. Abū Nuʿaym, in al-Ḥilyah (6/262), and al-Ḍiyāʾ, in al-Mukhtārah (74/2), connected it through him from Anas, attributed to the Prophet. Abū Qilābah likewise narrated it from Anas.