from the reports of ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mughaffal and Sahl ibn al-Ḥanẓaliyyah.” In al-Jāmiʿ, he attributed Sahl’s hadith to al-Ḥasan ibn Sufyān. Al-Haythamī said (10/77): “Its chain includes al-Mutawakkil ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, the father of Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Sarī, whom I do not know; the rest of its narrators are trustworthy.”

2211 — “I would not like Mount Uhud to be gold in my possession and for the third night to come while I still had a dinar of it, except for a dinar I had set aside for a debt—unless I were to distribute it among Allah’s servants like this”—gesturing with both hands in front of him—“and like this”—to his right—“and like this”—to his left.

Al-Bukhārī (7/137), Muslim (3/75), and Aḥmad (5/152) narrated it from Zayd ibn Wahb, from Abū Dharr, ascribed to the Prophet. In one version recorded by al-Bukhārī: “I would not be pleased to have …” It has already preceded under no. 1028.

It also has another chain with the wording: “I would not like to possess gold equal to Mount Uhud—or he said: I would not like Mount Uhud to be gold in my possession—and leave behind, on the day I die, a dinar or half a dinar, except for a creditor.” Aḥmad (5/160–161 and 176) and al-Khaṭīb (7/376) narrated it through Shuʿbah, from ʿAmr ibn Murrah, who said: I heard Suwayd ibn al-Ḥārith say: I heard Abū Dharr say, attributing it to the Prophet. Al-Khaṭīb’s wording is: “I would not be pleased.” The narrators of its chain are those relied upon by the six canonical compilers, apart from this Suwayd. Al-Bukhārī mentioned him without recording any adverse narrator criticism of him, and Ibn Abī Ḥātim followed him in this. It also has a supporting report with the wording: