Jami' at-Tirmidhi — Hadith #29969

Al-Jarrah bin Mukhlid Al-Basri told us, he said, Muadh bin Hisham told us, he said, my father told me, on the authority of Qatada, on the authority of Khaythamah bin Abi Sabra, He said, “I came to Medina and asked God to facilitate a good companion for me. Abu Hurairah facilitated it for me, so I sat with him and told him, ‘I asked May God make it easy for me to have a good companion, so you granted me success. He said to me, “Where are you from?” I said, “From the people of Kufa, I came to seek and ask for goodness.” He said. Isn’t there among you Saad bin Malik, the one who answered the call, and Ibn Masoud, the companion of the purification of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and his sandals and Hudhayfah? The keeper of the secrets of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and Ammar, whom God protected from Satan on the tongue of his Prophet, and Salman, the keeper of the two books. Qatada said. And the two books are the Gospel and the Qur’an. This is a good, authentic, and strange hadith. Khaythamah is Ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Sabra. It is attributed to his grandfather.