that a water-drawing camel belonging to some of Banu Salamah went into rut and attacked them … The hadith continues in similar terms, adding:

They said, “It prostrated to you, Messenger of Allah, when it saw you!” He said:

“Do not say that of me; do not say what I have not conveyed. By my life, it did not prostrate to me; rather, Allah, Mighty and Majestic, subjected it to me.”

Al-Bayhaqi transmitted it in Dala’il al-Nubuwwah (6/28).

I say: All the narrators in its chain of transmission are trustworthy, so it is a sound chain—despite the well-known disagreement concerning deeming an unnamed narrator trustworthy, namely the man from Banu Salamah. In any case, he was a Successor and belonged to the tribe of Jabir ibn Abdullah al-Ansari al-Sulami. One is therefore inclined to trust a narration such as his, especially in supporting reports and corroborating routes. And Allah knows best.

Then one of the brothers—may Allah reward him well—directed me to something that further reassures me regarding my conclusion that the hadith of al-Abbas al-Asfati is reliable: al-Daraqutni said in al-Hakim’s Questions to Him (p. 129):

“Truthful.”

So all praise is due to Allah for granting success, and I ask Him for more of His bounty! *

3491 — (“O Abu Dharr! I would not like to possess Mount Uhud in gold and silver, spending it in the path of Allah, and then, when I die, leave behind even a qirat of it.” I said, “O Messenger of Allah, a qintar?” He said, “O Abu Dharr! I am aiming for the lesser while you are aiming for the greater?! I seek the Hereafter, while you seek this world?! A qirat.” He repeated this to me three times.)

I say: In some narrations, it is a hadith of Abu Dharr al-Ghifari, may Allah be pleased with him, and in this complete form it has two routes of transmission: