Salam among you?” He said: So he sent for them and asked, “What kind of a man is Abdullah ibn Salam among you?”

They replied, “He is the best of us, the son of the best of us, our most learned man, the son of our most learned man, and the most knowledgeable in jurisprudence among us.” He asked, “Tell me: if he were to embrace Islam, would you embrace Islam?”

They said, “May Allah protect him from that!”

Then Ibn Salam came out and said, “I testify that there is no god worthy of worship but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah.”

They said, “He is the worst of us, the son of the worst of us, and the most ignorant of us, the son of the most ignorant of us.”

Ibn Salam said, “This is what I had feared!”

I say: This is an authentic three-narrator chain of transmission meeting the conditions of the two Shaykhs.

It was also recorded by al-Bukhari (3329, 3938, and 4480), al-Nasa'i in al-Sunan al-Kubra (5/338/9074), Ibn Hibban (9/146/7117), and Ahmad as well (3/189 and 271), through other routes from Humayd, with this wording.

Thabit also corroborated him, from Anas. It was recorded by Ibn Hibban (7380). *

3494 — “To proceed: By Allah, I give to one man—and [leave another man]—while the one I leave is dearer to me than the one to whom I give. Yet I give certain people because of the anxiety and panic I see in their hearts, and I leave certain people to the sufficiency and goodness that Allah has placed in their hearts—among them is Amr ibn Taghlib.”

It was recorded by al-Bukhari (923, 3145, and 7535), al-Tayalisi, no. 1170, and Ahmad