364 — “He has sold his Hereafter for his worldly life.” This was said concerning a man who sold something at a price for which he had sworn that he would not sell it.

Ibn Hibban reported it (1099): Abdullah ibn Salih al-Bukhari informed us in Baghdad; Ya'qub ibn Humayd ibn Kasib narrated to us; Ibn Fudayk narrated to us, from Rabi'ah ibn Abdullah ibn al-Hudayr, from Abu Sa'id, who said:

“A Bedouin passed by with a sheep, and I said, ‘Will you sell it for three dirhams?’ He replied, ‘No, by Allah!’ Then he sold it. I mentioned this to the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, and he said, ‘He has sold his Hereafter for his worldly life.’”

I say: This is a good chain of transmission. All its narrators are trustworthy and are among the narrators included in al-Tahdhib, apart from Abdullah ibn Salih al-Bukhari, who is trustworthy and whose biography appears in Tarikh Baghdad (9/481).

365 — “Attend the sermon and draw near to the imam, for a man may continue to keep his distance until he is delayed in Paradise, even if he enters it.”

Abu Dawud (1198), al-Hakim (1/289)—from whom al-Bayhaqi also reported it (3/238)—and Ahmad (5/11) reported it through Mu'adh ibn Hisham, who said: “I found in my father’s book, in his own handwriting—though I had not heard it from him—that Qatadah said: from Yahya ibn Malik, from Samurah ibn Jundub, that the Prophet of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said,” and then cited the above wording.

Al-Hakim said: “Authentic according to Muslim’s conditions.” Al-Dhahabi agreed with him.

That is what the two of them said. Yet this Yahya ibn Malik has been overlooked, to the best of our knowledge, by everyone who has compiled works on the narrators of the Six Books. He is not found in al-Tahdhib, al-Taqrib, or al-Tadhhib.