We went on a military expedition with the Prophet ﷺ, the expedition of Tabuk. The riding animals became severely exhausted, and the people complained to the Prophet ﷺ about the hardship their mounts were enduring.He waited until they reached a narrow pass, then the Prophet ﷺ entered it and said, "Proceed, in the name of Allah."The people passed through with their mounts, and he began to breathe upon their animals, saying, "O Allah, bear loads upon them in Your path. You are the One who lets the strong and the weak carry burdens, and the fresh and the dry, on land and at sea."He said, "We had not yet reached Madinah when the animals began pulling at their reins from eagerness."Fadala said, "This was the supplication of the Prophet ﷺ for the strong and the weak, but what about the fresh and the dry? When we arrived in Sham, we set out on the naval expedition to Cyprus. When I saw the ships at sea and what was loaded into them, I understood the meaning of the Prophet's ﷺ supplication."
حدثنا عصام بن خالد الحضرمي حدثنا صفوان بن عمرو عن شريح بن عبيد أن
غزونا مع النبي ﷺ غزوة تبوك فجهد بالظهر جهدا شديدا فشكوا إلى النبي ﷺ ما بظهرهم من الجهد فتحين بهم مضيقا فسار النبي ﷺ فيه فقال مروا بسم الله فمر الناس عليه بظهرهم فجعل ينفخ بظهرهم اللهم احمل عليها في سبيلك إنك تحمل على القوي والضعيف وعلى الرطب واليابس في البر والبحر قال فما بلغنا المدينة حتى جعلت تنازعنا أزمتها قال فضالة هذه دعوة النبي ﷺ على القوي والضعيف فما بال الرطب واليابس فلما قدمنا الشام غزونا غزوة قبرس في البحر فلما رأيت السفن في البحر وما يدخل فيها عرفت دعوة النبي ﷺ
Its chain of transmission is sahih. Haythami (6/193) did not attribute it to anyone in particular, and he weakened it because of Babuli. It is found in Tabarani's Al-Kabir (18/4300), and a similar version to Ahmad's was narrated by Ibn Hibban (418, no. 1706, Mawarid) and by Bazzar (2/357, no. 1840, Kashf).23838m - Ali bin Bahr told us, Walid bin Muslim told us, he said, Uzai told us, from Ismail bin Ubaydullah bin Abu Muhajir, from Maysara, the freed slave of Fadala, from Fadala bin Ubayd, from the Prophet ﷺ, who said, "Allah listens more attentively to a man with a beautiful voice reciting the Quran than the owner of a singing slave-girl does to his slave-girl." Sahih.(23838m) Its chain of transmission is sahih. Maysara, the freed slave of Fadala, is a reliable narrator among the successors, and his hadith is found in Ibn Majah. This hadith was mentioned earlier at 23831.