and who hasten towards Allah’s love and good pleasure in all their deeds.”
This is most accurate, as you can see. May Allah reward him well.
Third: As for the grave objectionability alleged by Ibn Kathir, may Allah have mercy on him, it appears that he meant that it is inconceivable for one of the worshippers to hold back to the rear row in order to look at a woman. Our answer is that they have said: “Once a transmitted report has been established, speculative reasoning has no place.” After the hadith has been established, there is no room to object to the actual occurrence it relates. Were we to open the door to such objections merely because something seems rationally improbable, we would be forced to reject many authentic hadiths. This is not the way of the people of the Sunnah and hadith; rather, it is the practice of the Mu‘tazilah and the followers of religious whims.
Moreover, what prevents those people who held back from having been hypocrites, who outwardly professed faith while inwardly concealing disbelief? Indeed, what prevents them from having been people who had only recently entered Islam and had not yet been refined by Islam’s discipline or schooled in its etiquette?
2473 — “Allah, Exalted is He, says: ‘O son of Adam, if you give away the surplus, it is better for you; but if you withhold it, it is worse for you. Begin with those under your care. Allah does not blame a person for keeping what is sufficient. The upper hand is better than the lower hand.’”
Ahmad (2/362) narrated it: Zayd ibn Yahya al-Dimashqi narrated to us; Abdullah ibn al-Ala ibn Zabr narrated to us; he said: I heard al-Qasim, the freedman of Yazid, say: Abu Hurayrah narrated to me that he heard the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, say this. I say: This is a good chain of transmission. Its narrators are trustworthy, despite some weakness in al-Qasim—who was Ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Shami, Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Dimashqi, the freedman of the family of Abu Sufyan ibn Harb al-Umawi. Nevertheless, his hadith does not fall below the rank of good. It has been said that he heard from none of the Companions except Abu Umamah, but this chain refutes that, for he explicitly stated that he narrated from Abu Hurayrah, and al-Bukhari stated definitively