I say: This is an authentic chain of transmission. Its narrators, from Ibn Jurayj onward, are trustworthy and are among the narrators of both al-Bukhari and Muslim. As for Abu Qurrah—whose name was Musa ibn Tariq al-Yamani—he was trustworthy and among al-Nasa’i’s narrators. ʿAli ibn Ziyad al-Laḥji was declared trustworthy by Ibn Hibban (8/470), who said: “His hadith are sound.” A number of trustworthy narrators also reported from him, as mentioned in the book Taysir al-Intifaʿ. May Allah, by His bounty and generosity, make it easy for me to complete it. Al-Mufaḍḍal ibn Muhammad al-Jundi was the hadith scholar of Mecca; al-Hafiz Abu ʿAli al-Naysaburi declared him trustworthy, as stated in Siyar Aʿlam al-Nubalaʾ (14/258).

This hadith has corroborating reports, some of which are found in Sahih Muslim, Ibn Khuzaymah, Ibn Hibban, and al-Hakim, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbas. Their documentation has already preceded at (2023). I have included it here on the authority of Abu Hurayrah because of its rarity.

2959 — “You are a ship.”

Al-Hakim recorded it (3/606), as did Ahmad (5/220, 221, and 222), al-Bazzar (3/270–271), al-Ruyani (folio 126/2), Ibn ʿAdi (3/401), al-Tabarani in al-Muʿjam al-Kabir (7/96–97), and Abu Nuʿaym in al-Ḥilyah (1/369) and al-Maʿrifah (1/300/2), through several routes from Saʿid ibn Jumhan, from Safinah, who said: “We were [with the Messenger of Allah] on a journey. Whenever a man became exhausted, he would place his belongings upon me—a shield or a sword—until I had carried a great deal of it.” He said: The Prophet then said—and he cited it. Al-Hakim said: