Jami' at-Tirmidhi — Hadith #27825

Al-Hasan bin Ali Al-Khalal narrated to us, Hisham bin Abdul-Malik narrated to us, Al-Layth bin Saad narrated to us, Abu Aqeel, Zahra bin Ma`bad, on the authority of Abu Salih, the servant of Uthman ibn Affan, who said: I heard Uthman, while he was on the pulpit, saying, “I have concealed from you a conversation that I heard from Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, I hate that you should be separated from me. Then it seemed to me that I should speak to you so that a man might choose for himself what seemed to him. I heard the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace. And he said: “One day’s bond in the path of God is better than a thousand days in other dwellings.” Abu Issa said this. A good, authentic, and strange hadith. Muhammad bin Ismail Abu Salih, the servant of Uthman, said, “His name is Turkan.”