- "The Jews are a people of envy, and they do not envy us for anything as they envy us for peace and for saying 'Āmīn'." It was recorded by Ibn Khuzaymah in his "Ṣaḥīḥ" (1/73/2): Abū Bishr al-Wāsiṭī narrated to us, Khālid, meaning Ibn ʿAbd Allāh, informed us from Sahl - who is Ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ - from his father from ʿĀʾishah who said: "A Jew entered upon the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) and said: 'Death be upon you, O Muḥammad.' The Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) replied: 'And upon you.' ʿĀʾishah said: 'I was about to speak, but I knew the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) disliked that, so I remained silent. Then another entered and said: 'Death be upon you.' He replied: 'And upon you.' I was about to speak, but I knew the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) disliked that. Then a third entered and said: 'Death be upon you.' I could not hold back and said: 'And upon you be death and the wrath of Allāh and His curse, brothers of apes and pigs! Do you greet the Messenger of Allāh with what Allāh has not greeted him?' The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) said: 'Indeed, Allāh does not love indecency or obscene speech. They said a word, and we responded to them. The Jews...'." It was also narrated by Abū Nuʿaym. I say: This is an authentic chain of narration; all its narrators are trustworthy, the narrators of the authentic collections, and Abū Bishr al-Wāsiṭī's name is Isḥāq ibn Shāhīn, and he is one of the teachers of al-Bukhārī. The ḥadīth was also recorded by Ibn Mājah (1/281) through the route of Ḥammād ibn Salamah, narrated to us by Sahl ibn Abī Ṣāliḥ with the same content as mentioned above. Al-Būṣīrī said in "al-Zawāʾid": "This is an authentic chain of narration; Muslim used all its narrators." There is another route for the ḥadīth, narrated by Ḥuṣayn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān from ʿAmr ibn Qays from Muḥammad ibn al-Ashʿath from ʿĀʾishah who said: "While I was with the Prophet (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam), a man from the Jews sought permission to enter..." The ḥadīth in its entirety is similar and more complete, except that it does not mention envy for peace, and its wording is: "They do not envy us for anything as they envy us for Friday, which Allāh guided us to and they went astray from, and for the qiblah, which Allāh guided us to and they went astray from, and for our saying behind the imam: Āmīn."