with the heading: “Chapter: The Prophet’s supplication for his servant to have a long life and abundant wealth.” Al-Hafiz mentioned that al-Bukhari thereby alluded to this route through Sinan.

2542 — “O Saʿd! Beware lest you come on the Day of Resurrection carrying a camel that is braying.”

Al-Bazzar recorded it in his Musnad (p. 92, al-Zawaʾid): Saʿid ibn Yahya ibn Saʿid al-Umawi narrated to us: My father narrated to us: Yahya ibn Saʿid al-Ansari narrated to us, from Nafiʿ, from Ibn ʿUmar, who said: “The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) sent Saʿd ibn ʿUbadah as a collector of alms, and he said”—then he mentioned it. He said: “I will not take it; excuse me from it.” So he excused him. He said: “No one narrated it in this manner except Yahya al-Umawi.”

I say: He is trustworthy and among the narrators of the two Sahihs, as are all the other narrators. Hence al-Hafiz said immediately afterward: “Its chain of transmission is authentic, and it has a corroborating report in the hadith of Ibn al-Musayyib, from Saʿd himself.” Al-Haythami said in al-Majmaʿ (3/86): “Al-Bazzar narrated it, and its narrators are those of the Sahih.”

The corroborating report referred to was recorded by Ahmad (5/285) with a chain whose narrators are trustworthy and among al-Bukhari’s narrators, except that Saʿid ibn al-Musayyib did not meet Saʿd. It also has another corroborating report in the hadith of Qays ibn Saʿd ibn ʿUbadah al-Ansari: the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) sent him as an alms collector, and his father said: “Do not set out until you have received instructions from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him).” Then, when he