Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 34000 — Reports on the virtue of Musa

Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id (may Allah be pleased with him) said: A man of the Ansar heard a Jew in the market saying: "By the One who gave Musa preference over mankind." He slapped him on the face and said: O wicked one! Even over Abu al-Qasim (peace and blessings be upon him)? The Jew went to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: O Abu al-Qasim! So-and-so has struck me on the face. He sent a man to summon him and said: Why did you strike him on the face? He said: I was passing by him in the market and I heard him saying: "By the One who gave Musa preference over mankind." I became angry and struck him on the face. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Do not prefer the prophets over one another, for the people will be struck with a swoon on the Day of Resurrection. I will raise my head, and there will be Musa (peace be upon him), holding on to a leg of the Throne. I do not know whether he will have swooned with the people and then recovered before me, or whether the first swoon will have sufficed him."