He visited Abu Dharr while he was in Rabadhah, and with him was a black wife of his, gaunt with hunger, bearing no trace of dyed garments or perfume.Abu Dharr said, "Do you not see what this little dark woman is telling me to do? She tells me to go to Iraq, but if I go to Iraq, they will overwhelm me with their worldly goods. My dear friend ﷺ entrusted to me that before the bridge of Hell there is a path of slipping and stumbling, and that we are better off crossing it while our loads are light."Matar also related the entire hadith. One of the two narrators said, "that we cross it while our loads are light," and the other said, "that we cross it while our loads are light," and the other said, "that we cross it while our loads press heavily upon us, more likely to be saved, than to cross it while we are weighed down."
حدثنا عفان حدثنا همام حدثنا قتادة عن أبي قلابة
أنه دخل على أبي ذر وهو بالربذة وعنده امرأة له سوداء مسغبة ليس عليها أثر المجاسد ولا الخلوق قال فقال ألا تنظرون إلى ما تأمرني به هذه السويداء تأمرني أن آتي العراق فإذا أتيت العراق مالوا علي بدنياهم وإن خليلي ﷺ عهد إلي أن دون جسر جهنم طريقا ذا دحض ومزلة وإنا نأتي عليه وفي أحمالنا اقتدار وحدث مطر أيضا بالحديث أجمع في قول أحدهما أن نأتي عليه وفي أحمالنا اقتدار وقال الآخر أن نأتي عليه وفي أحمالنا اقتدار وقال الآخر أن نأتي عليه وفي أحمالنا اضطهار أحرى أن ننجو عن أن نأتي عليه ونحن مواقير
Its chain of transmission is sahih. Abu Asma is Rahbi, whose name is Amr bin Marthad. He is trustworthy, and his hadith appears often in Muslim, as previously mentioned. This is a report that illustrates Abu Dharr's keenness for asceticism and his distance from worldly life.