Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah

Hazrat Ibn Ahmas, may Allah have mercy on him, says that I said to Hazrat Abu Dharr, may Allah be pleased with him, that a Prophetic saying narrated by you has reached me. He said: State it, I think I have never attributed any false statement to the Prophet. I said that you have narrated that there are three types of people whom Allah loves. He said: I have heard and narrated this, that among the three people whom Allah loves, one is the person who fights against a group, and when that group begins to prevail, he continues to fight them until he is martyred, or Allah grants victory because of him. The second is the person who travels with people at night, and when they all become tired and lie down, he stands up to pray and then wakes the people to move forward. The third is the person whose neighbor is a bad person, and he patiently endures his neighbor’s troubles.