It was recorded by al-Tirmidhī (3/199-200), Aḥmad (2/167), Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim in "al-Sunnah" (348), and Abū Nuʿaym in "al-Ḥilyah" (5/168-169) through various chains from Abū Qabīl al-Maʿāfirī from Shafī al-Aṣbaḥī from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr who said: "The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) came out to us with two books in his hand and said," and he mentioned it. Al-Tirmidhī said: "This is a ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ gharīb ḥadīth, and Abū Qabīl's name is Ḥayyī ibn Hāniʾ." I say: He is ḥasan in ḥadīth, trusted by Aḥmad and a group, and Ibn Ḥibbān said in "al-Thiqāt": "He makes mistakes." In "al-Taqrīb": "Truthful but errs." And Shafī—who is Ibn Mātiʿ—is trustworthy, so the isnād is ḥasan. "Note" The scholar al-Shanqīṭī attributed this ḥadīth in "Zād al-Muslim fīmā Ittafaqa ʿalayhi al-Bukhārī wa-Muslim" to the narration of Muslim, which is a pure error. I do not know how this occurred to him, and it appeared in "al-Fatḥ al-Kabīr" attributed to (Ḥam, Q, N), and I suspect that (Q) is a distortion of (T). And Allāh knows best. As for "al-Jāmiʿ al-Kabīr" (1/14/2), it was attributed to (Ḥam, T) only, and in "Tuḥfat al-Aḥwadhī" it was attributed to al-Nasāʾī, and perhaps he means "al-Kubrā" of his, for I did not see it in "al-Sunan al-Ṣughrā."

- "Are you pleased to be a quarter of the people of Paradise?" We said: Yes. He said: "Are you pleased to be a third of the people of Paradise?" We said: Yes. He said: "Are you pleased to be half of the people of Paradise?" We said: Yes. He said: "By the One in whose hand is the soul of Muḥammad, I hope that you will be half of the people of Paradise, because none will enter Paradise except a Muslim soul, and you are among the people of shirk like a white hair on the skin of a black bull or like a black hair on the skin of a red bull."