But he was not alone in narrating it: Qays ibn al-Rabiʿ also followed him up, saying: “ʿUthman ibn Shabur, a man of Banu Asad, narrated to us—from Shaqiq, or something to that effect; Qays was uncertain—that a man visited Salman, and he offered him what he had. He said, ‘Were it not that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, forbade us—or were it not that we had been forbidden for one of us to go to unnecessary trouble for his companion—we would have made greater preparations for you.’”

Ahmad narrated it (5/441). I say: Its chain of transmission is weak. I could find no biographical notice for ʿUthman ibn Shabur, nor did al-Hafiz include him in Taʿjil al-Manfaʿah, despite its being within the scope of that work. Qays ibn al-Rabiʿ also had poor retention. Nevertheless, the hadith is strong when all these routes are taken together, especially since it is supported by the general import of the hadith of ʿUmar ibn al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him: “We were forbidden from going to unnecessary trouble.” Al-Bukhari narrated it at the beginning of “Holding Fast [to the Quran and Sunnah].”

Note: The sourcing of this hadith has already appeared under no. 2392, so excuse the repetition, although this place does contain some additional benefit.

2441 — “Night and day will not pass until a man from among the mawali (clients) called Jahjah comes to rule.”

Muslim (8/184), al-Tirmidhi (2229), Ahmad (2/329), and al-Thaqafi in The Shaykh-List of the Naysaburis (folio 192/1) narrated it from ʿAbd al-Kabir ibn ʿAbd al-Majid Abu Bakr al-Hanafi, who said: “ʿAbd al-Hamid ibn Jaʿfar narrated to us, saying: I heard ʿUmar ibn al-Hakam narrate from Abu Hurayrah, attributing it to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.” Al-Tirmidhi said: “A good, singular hadith.”