the people are like a black hair on the side of a white bull, or like a white hair on the side of a black bull. And I hope that you will be a quarter of the people of Paradise; so we glorified [Allāh]. Then he said: a third of the people of Paradise; so we glorified [Allāh]. Then he said: half of the people of Paradise; so we glorified [Allāh]. It was recorded by al-Bukhārī (5/241), Muslim (1/139), and Aḥmad (3/32-33) from the ḥadīth of Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī as marfūʿ— and the context is from al-Bukhārī. Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah attributed it in some of his fatāwá (3/170 - Majmūʿ al-fatāwá) to "the two Ṣaḥīḥs" with this wording: "then it is called out with a voice"! This is lenient; because Muslim does not have the wording "voice" (1). Abū al-Ḥasan ibn al-Faḍl criticized it by saying: It was solely narrated by Ḥafṣ ibn Ghiyāth from al-Aʿmash with this wording! However, al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar refuted this by saying in "al-Fatḥ" (13/386): "It is not as he said; for ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Muḥāribī agreed with him from al-Aʿmash. It was recorded by ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad in the book "al-Sunnah" from his father from al-Muḥāribī. I say: It has a corroborating narration from the ḥadīth of Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh in his ḥadīth with the wording: "then it is called out with a voice that is heard by those far as it is heard by those near..." It is an authentic ḥadīth, suspended by al-Bukhārī in his "Ṣaḥīḥ" and connected in "Afʿāl al-ʿIbād" (p. 89), and in "al-Adab al-Mufrad" (970) and others. Al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar strengthened it, and I have documented it in "Ẓilāl al-Jannah fī Takhrīj al-Sunnah" (no. 514)