Jami' at-Tirmidhi — Hadith #29277

Abdul bin Humaid told us, Abu Al-Walid told us, Hammad bin Salamah told us, on the authority of Shuaib bin Al-Habhab, on the authority of Anas bin Malik, he said: The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, with a wet mask on him, said, “The example of a good word is like a good tree with a firm root and its branches in the sky.” It yields its fruit at all times by the permission of its Lord. He said, “It is the palm tree: (It is like an evil word, like an evil tree uprooted from above the earth.) “It has no stability.” He said, “It is bitter colocynth.” He said, “I told that to Abu Al-Aaliyah, and he said, “He is truthful and good.” Qutaibah told us, Abu told us Bakr bin Shuaib bin Al-Habhab, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Anas bin Malik, similar to it in its meaning, but he did not narrate it and did not mention Abu Al-Aliya’s saying This is more correct than the hadith of Hammad bin Salamah, and more than one person narrated something like this on a conditional basis, and we do not know of anyone who attributed it to the Prophet except Hammad bin Salamah, and he narrated it. Muammar, Hammad bin Zaid, and more than one person, and they did not narrate it. Ahmad bin Abdah al-Dhabi narrated to us, Hammad bin Zaid narrated to us, on the authority of Shuaib bin Al-Habhab, on the authority of Anas bin Malik, similar to the hadith of Qutaibah, but he did not narrate it.