3695), and Abū Nuʿaym in al-Ḥilyah (1/360), through several routes from Sufyān, who said: ʿAmr ibn Dīnār informed us from Yaḥyā ibn Jaʿdah, who said: “Some of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, visited Khabbāb and said: ‘Rejoice, Abū ʿAbd Allāh! You will come to Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, at the Basin.’ He said: ‘How could that be with this?’—and he pointed to the upper and lower parts of his house. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, had said…” Then he cited it.

I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission, Allah willing. All its narrators are trustworthy and are narrators of the two Ṣaḥīḥ collections, apart from Yaḥyā ibn Jaʿdah, who was a trustworthy Successor. He narrated from Khabbāb and other Companions. Al-Haythamī said in al-Majmaʿ (10/254): “…Its narrators are those of the Ṣaḥīḥ, apart from Yaḥyā ibn Jaʿdah, and he is trustworthy.”

It has a corroborating report from the hadith of Salmān al-Fārisī, transmitted from him through several routes:

The first: from al-Ḥasan, who said: “When Salmān was nearing death, he wept and said: ‘The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, charged us with an instruction, but we abandoned what he charged us with: that the worldly provision sufficient for one of us should be like the provision of a rider.’” He said: “Then we looked at what he left behind, and its value was twenty-odd dirhams, or thirty-odd dirhams.” Aḥmad recorded it (5/438): Hushaym narrated to us from Manṣūr, from him.

I say: The narrators in this chain are trustworthy and are narrators of the two Ṣaḥīḥ collections, except that Hushaym practised tadlīs, as did al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī. However, the apparent meaning of his words, “Then we looked…,” is that he was present when Salmān was nearing death and heard his report. Yet they have interpreted al-Ḥasan’s statement in one version of his narration, “Ibn ʿAbbās addressed us in Baṣrah,” to mean that he addressed the people of Baṣrah. It is therefore possible that by his words, “We looked,” he meant something similar by way of interpretation—namely, the people who were present with him. Al-Sarī ibn Yaḥyā also followed him in narrating it from al-Ḥasan, but without the words, “Then we looked.” Abū Nuʿaym recorded it (1/196).