with the Quran to enemy territory, lest the enemy obtain it.” What prevents Allah from having informed His Prophet that his Companions would produce written copies of the Quran? But al-Hurr is unknown in status.” I say: Not so. Ibn Abi Hatim said (1/2/278): “I asked my father about him, and he replied: ‘He is truthful; there is no harm in him.’” I say: All the other narrators in its chain are trustworthy narrators of the two Sahihs, apart from Ibrahim ibn Jabir—namely, al-Qazzaz, Abu Ishaq al-Basri al-Bahili. Ibn Abi Hatim mentioned him (1/1/92), on the authority of a group who narrated from him, then said: “My father and Abu Zurʿah narrated from him.” Abu Zurʿah narrated only from a trustworthy narrator. Accordingly, in my view, the hadith has a good chain of transmission. And Allah knows best.

2343 — “Whoever wishes to see the humility of Jesus should look at Abu Dharr.”

Ibn Saʿd recorded it in al-Tabaqat (4/228), through Abu Umayyah ibn Yaʿla, from Abu al-Zinad, from al-Aʿraj, from Abu Hurayrah, attributed to the Prophet. I say: This chain of transmission is weak. Its narrators are trustworthy narrators of the two Sahihs, apart from this Abu Umayyah—whose name was Ismaʿil. Al-Dhahabi mentioned him in al-Mughni and said: “Al-Daraqutni declared him weak.” Yet the hadith has corroborating reports that strengthen it. The first is from Abu Dharr himself, who said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “No dusty earth has carried, nor has the green sky shaded, anyone more truthful and more faithful in speech than Abu Dharr—one resembling