The ninth: from Abu Khaldah, who said: I said to Abu al-‘Aliyah, “Did Anas hear from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)?” He replied, “He served him for ten years, and the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) supplicated for him. He had a garden that bore fruit twice a year, and in it was sweet basil whose fragrance was that of musk.”

Recorded by al-Tirmidhi (3832), who said: “A good, singular hadith.” I say: Its chain of transmission is authentic; all its narrators are trustworthy narrators of the Sahih collections.

The tenth: from Thumamah ibn ‘Abdullah ibn Anas, who said: “Anas’s vineyard yielded twice every year.” Recorded by Ibn Sa‘d, and its chain of transmission is authentic according to al-Bukhari’s conditions. Al-Tabarani also recorded it in al-Awsat (1/31/1/503), through another route from Thumamah, with wording similar to the following route, but without Anas’s statement, “I have buried….” Its chain is good.

The eleventh: from Sinan ibn Rabi‘ah, who said: I heard Anas ibn Malik say: “My mother took me to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, this little servant of yours—supplicate to Allah for him.’ He said: ‘O Allah, increase his wealth and children, prolong his life, and forgive his sin.’” Anas said: “I have buried one hundred minus two of my own offspring—or he said: one hundred and two. My fruit indeed bears twice a year, and I have lived on until I grew weary of life”—and in another narration: “until I felt ashamed before people”—“and I hope for the fourth.”

Recorded by Ibn Sa‘d (7/19) and al-Bukhari in al-Adab al-Mufrad (653). The other narration is also his, and it contains Sa‘id ibn Zayd—al-Azdi—who was truthful but prone to errors. Ibn Sa‘d’s narration is free of him; hence al-Hafiz said in al-Fath (4/229):