Majma al-Zawaid — Hadith 116

Sayyiduna Jarir bin Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) states: We set out with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) (on a journey). When we had come out of Madinah, a rider was approaching us from the front. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: It seems this rider is coming to you. What the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) meant was that he was coming to us. The narrator states: When he reached us, he gave the greeting of peace, and we returned his greeting. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked him: Where are you coming from? He replied: From my wife and children and my family. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: Where are you heading? He said: I am heading to the Messenger of Allah. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: You have reached him. The man said: O Messenger of Allah! Teach me what faith is. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: That you bear witness that there is no god but Allah Almighty and that Sayyiduna Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) is the Messenger of Allah, that you establish prayer, pay zakah, fast in Ramadan and perform Hajj to the House of Allah. He said: I affirm it. The narrator states: Then his camel's foot went into the burrow of a jirdhan (a particular kind of rat), and the camel fell and the man fell too. He fell on his head and died. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Bring this man to me! Sayyiduna Ammar bin Yasir (may Allah be pleased with him) and Sayyiduna Hudhayfah bin al-Yaman (may Allah be pleased with him) rushed to him. They both sat him up and said: O Messenger of Allah! He has passed away. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) turned his face away from them both. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to them both: As for your seeing me turn my face away from this man, the reason is that I saw two angels showering him with the fruits of Paradise, and so I realized that he was hungry when he died. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: By Allah! He is one of those about whom Allah Almighty has said: "Those who believe and do not mix their faith with wrongdoing: for them there is security, and they are the rightly guided." Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Take care of your brother! So we carried his body to the water; we washed him, applied fragrance to him and shrouded him, then carried his body to the grave. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Make a lahd (side niche); do not make a shaqq (central trench).
In one narration the words are: "He is one of those who did little but were given a great reward."
In one narration the words are: His camel's foot went into the burrow of a yarbu' (a particular kind of rat).
Imam Ahmad and Imam al-Tabarani in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir recorded all these narrations; its chain contains a narrator, Abu Janab, who is a mudallis (one who conceals defects in the chain), and he has narrated this report too with the word 'an (from). And Allah knows best.