Abu Bakr—may Allah be pleased with him—then went to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, and I followed him alone, close behind, until he came to the Prophet ﷺ and related the matter to him exactly as it had occurred. The Prophet ﷺ raised his head toward me and said: …—then he mentioned the hadith—and added:

[So I said: “May Allah forgive you, Abu Bakr!”]

Abu Bakr—may Allah be pleased with him—then turned away weeping.

The wording is al-Tabarani’s, while the two additions are Ahmad’s. Its chain is good. Mubarak ibn Fudalah was truthful and practised concealment in transmission, but he explicitly stated direct hearing in all the routes from him; thus, we are secure from his concealment. For this reason, al-Haythami said (9/45):

“Al-Tabarani narrated it, and Ahmad narrated something similar in a lengthy hadith that has already appeared under marriage. Its chain includes Mubarak ibn Fudalah, and his hadith is good.”

I say: Al-Hakim also reported it in this longer form in “Marriage” (2/173–174), declaring: “Authentic according to the conditions of Muslim!”

Al-Dhahabi refuted him, saying:

“I say: Muslim did not rely on Mubarak.”

3146 — “Wherever you may be, if you worship Allah well, then receive glad tidings of Paradise.”

Al-Dawlabi narrated it in al-Kuna (1/179–180): Ishaq ibn Suwayd al-Ramli narrated to us: Ibn Abi Uways narrated to us: Yahya ibn Umayr Abu Zakariyya al-Bazzaz—the client of Nawfal ibn Adi ibn Nawfal ibn Asad—narrated to me that he heard Said ibn Abi Said al-Maqburi narrating from his father, from Abu Hurayrah, who said:

A group of desert Arabs came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and said, “O Messenger of Allah, indeed the people of…”