Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: Once there was a heated exchange between Sayyiduna Khalid bin al-Walid (may Allah be pleased with him) and Sayyiduna Abd al-Rahman bin Awf (may Allah be pleased with him). Sayyiduna Khalid (may Allah be pleased with him) said to Sayyiduna Abd al-Rahman (may Allah be pleased with him): "You people consider yourselves superior to us because of a few days by which you preceded us?" The narrator said: It has reached us
that when this was mentioned to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), he said:
"Leave my Companions to me! By the One in whose Hand is my soul, if you were to spend gold equal to (Mount) Uhud (the narrator is in doubt; perhaps the words are: equal to the mountains), you would still not reach their deeds."
Imam Ahmad recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.
Hadith Referenceمجمع الزوائد ومنبع الفوائد / كتاب المناقب / 16377
Hadith Gradingمحدثین:إسنادہ صحیح
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