- “I give to some people because I fear their weakness and impatience, while I leave others to the [contentment and] goodness that Allah has placed in their hearts—[among them, ʿAmr ibn Taghlib].”
Al-Bukhārī (923, 3145, and 7535) and Aḥmad (5/69) narrated it through several routes from Jarīr ibn Ḥāzim, from al-Ḥasan, who said: I heard ʿAmr ibn Taghlib say:
The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, gave gifts to some people and withheld them from others. It was as though they took offense at him, so he said: ... and he then cited it.
ʿAmr ibn Taghlib said: “I would not exchange the statement of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, for red camels.”
The wording is al-Bukhārī’s in the second of these locations, while the two additions are from the other two locations.
It has another route from al-Ḥasan:
Al-Ṭayālisī narrated it in his Musnad (1170), and Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim in al-Āḥād wa al-Mathānī (1665), through Mubārak, from al-Ḥasan, with the same chain.
Mubārak was Ibn Faḍālah, a well-known practitioner of tadlīs (obscuring links in transmission).
The preceding route renders this one unnecessary.
It also has a corroborating report, attributed to the Prophet, from Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ:
“I give gifts to some men, while leaving others who are dearer to me than they are without giving them anything, for fear that the former may be cast face down into the Fire.”
Al-Bukhārī (27 and 1478), Muslim (1/91–92 and 3/104), Abū Dāwūd (4685), and al-Nasāʾī, in al-Sunan al-Ṣughrā (8/103–104 and 104) and al-Kubrā