One day, I went early to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. He said: He heard the voices of two men disputing over a verse, so the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, came out to us, with anger evident on his face, and said: … then he mentioned it. *

3579—“A man who was not with us when we invited them followed us. If you permit him, he may enter.”

It is narrated in the hadiths of Abū Masʿūd al-Badrī and Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh.

As for the hadith of Abū Masʿūd, it was narrated by al-Bukhārī (5434 and 5461), Muslim (6/115–116), al-Tirmidhī (1099)—whose wording is cited here—al-Dārimī (2/105–106), Abū ʿAwānah (5/373–375), Ibn Ḥibbān (5276), and Aḥmad (4/121), through several routes from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Wāʾil, from Abū Masʿūd al-Badrī al-Anṣārī, who said:

A man known as Abū Shuʿayb came to a young servant of his who was a butcher and said, “Prepare for me a meal sufficient for five, for I have seen signs of hunger on the face of the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace.”

He said: So he prepared a meal, then sent for the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, inviting him and those seated with him. When the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, rose, a man who had not been with them when they were invited followed them. When the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, reached the door, he said to the owner of the house: … then he mentioned it.

He said, “We have permitted him, so let him enter.”

As for the hadith of Jābir, it was narrated by Muslim (6/116), without giving its wording, Abū ʿAwānah (5/375), and Aḥmad (3/353), through the route of ʿAmmār ibn Ruzayq.

Muslim also narrated it, without giving its wording, as did Abū ʿAwānah and Aḥmad (3/396), through the route of Zuhayr. Both narrated from al-Aʿmash, from Abū Sufyān, from Jābir. *