al-Nasāʾī, but I find it unlikely that he is the one intended in the ḥadīth, for two reasons: the first is that if it were him, Imām al-Ṭaḥāwī would have attributed it to him to distinguish him from Bakkār ibn Qutaybah, the trustworthy. The second is that I have not seen any narration from Abū Aḥmad al-Zubayrī by him, unlike Ibn Qutaybah. And Allāh knows best.

"Whoever fears sets out early, and whoever sets out early reaches the destination. Indeed, the commodity of Allāh is precious; indeed, the commodity of Allāh is Paradise." It was narrated by al-Bukhārī in "al-Tārīkh" (1/2/111/1873), al-Tirmidhī (2452), al-Ḥākim (4/307-308), ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd in "al-Muntaqá min al-Musnad" (156/2), al-ʿUqaylī in "al-Ḍuʿafāʾ" (457), al-Qaḍāʿī (33/1), and Abū Nuʿaym in "al-Jannah" (8/2) from Abū ʿAqīl al-Thaqafī. Yazīd ibn Sinān al-Tamīmī said: I heard Bukayr ibn Fayrūz say: I heard Abū Hurayrah say: and he mentioned it as a marfūʿ ḥadīth. al-ʿUqaylī said: "Yazīd ibn Sinān Abū Furwah al-Rahāwī, he is not followed upon it and is not known except by it. Yaḥyá said: He is nothing." al-Ḥāfiẓ said in "al-Taqrīb": "Weak." al-Tirmidhī was lenient and said: "A ḥasan gharīb ḥadīth"! and al-Ḥākim said: