It has been narrated (through a different chain of transmitters) on the authority of Jabir who said:
We were one thousand and four hundred on the Day of Hudaibiya when the Prophet (ﷺ) said to us: Today you are the best people on the earth. And Jabir said: If I had the eyesight, I could show you the place of the tree.
حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو الأَشْعَثِيُّ، وَسُوَيْدُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، وَإِسْحَاقُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، وَأَحْمَدُ، بْنُ عَبْدَةَ - وَاللَّفْظُ لِسَعِيدٍ قَالَ سَعِيدٌ وَإِسْحَاقُ أَخْبَرَنَا وَقَالَ الآخَرَانِ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ عَمْرٍو، عَنْ جَابِرٍ، قَالَ كُنَّا يَوْمَ الْحُدَيْبِيَةِ أَلْفًا وَأَرْبَعَمِائَةٍ فَقَالَ لَنَا النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم
أَنْتُمُ الْيَوْمَ خَيْرُ أَهْلِ الأَرْضِ
. وَقَالَ جَابِرٌ لَوْ كُنْتُ أُبْصِرُ لأَرَيْتُكُمْ مَوْضِعَ الشَّجَرَةِ.
Isnad
7 transmitters- 1Sa'id bin 'Amr bin Sahl al-Kundial-Kufa · d. 230 AH
- 2Swyd bin Sa'id
- 3Ishaq bin Ibrahim bin Muhammadal-Basra · d. 253 AH
- 4Ahmed bin 'Ubda bin Musaal-Basra · d. 245 AH
- 5Sufyan bin 'UyaynahKufa/Makkah · d. 196 AH
- 6'Amr bin DinarMakkah · d. 126 AH
- 7Jabir ibn 'AbdullahMedinah/Baghdad/Egypt/Damascus · d. ~78 AH/687 CE
References2 variants
- In-Book Reference
- Book 33, Hadith 108
- USC-MSA web (English) reference
- Book 20, Hadith 4580 (deprecated numbering scheme)