Among these, he chose the view that encompasses all righteous deeds, including the remembrance mentioned in this hadith, according to its own wording: “among the enduring righteous deeds.”
As for the other version, “They are the enduring righteous deeds,” it is either a case of hyperbole, like his saying: “Pilgrimage is ʿArafah,” and his saying: “A Muslim is one from whose tongue and hand the Muslims are safe”—and there are many other well-known examples—or else the narrator omitted the particle min (“among”), which indicates partiality. And Allah knows best.
I then found another chain for the hadith, “Take your shields ...” Mansūr ibn Salamah al-Madanī narrated to us: Ḥakīm ibn Qays ibn Makhramah al-Zuhrī told me, from his father, that he heard Abū Hurayrah—may Allah be pleased with him—say:
We were sitting around the Prophet ﷺ, and he said: ...
Then he mentioned it.
Al-Ṭabarānī also transmitted it in al-Duʿāʾ (3/1562/1684).
I could not find any biographical notice for Ḥakīm ibn Qays or for his father. *
- “May Allah have mercy on a servant who owes his brother a wrong concerning his honour or wealth, and who goes to him and seeks his absolution before he is called to account, when there will be neither dinar nor dirham. If he has good deeds, some of his good deeds will be taken; and if he has no good deeds, they will load him with some of their sins.”
Al-Tirmidhī (2/68), Ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī (2/28/275), and Abū Yaʿlā (4/1541) transmitted it through Abū Khālid Yazīd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Dālānī, from Zayd ibn Abī Unaysah, from Saʿīd al-Maqburī, from Abū Hurayrah, attributed to the Prophet ﷺ. Al-Tirmidhī said: