Allah sent His Prophet ﷺ to bring one man into Paradise. He entered a synagogue and found Jews gathered there, with one of them reading the Torah to them. When they came to the description of the Prophet ﷺ, they stopped reading.In one corner of the synagogue lay a sick man. The Prophet ﷺ asked, "Why have you stopped?"The sick man answered, "They came to the description of a prophet, so they stopped."Then the sick man crawled forward until he took hold of the Torah and began to read. When he reached the description of the Prophet ﷺ and his community, he said, "This is your description and the description of your community. I bear witness that there is no god but Allah and that you are the Messenger of Allah." Then he died.The Prophet ﷺ said to his companions, "Take charge of your brother's burial."
حدثنا روح وعفان المعنى قالا حدثنا حماد بن سلمة عن عطاء بن السائب عن أبي عبيدة بن عبد الله بن مسعود قال عفان
إن الله عز وجل ابتعث نبيه ﷺ لإدخال رجل إلى الجنة فدخل الكنيسة فإذا هو بيهود وإذا يهودي يقرأ عليهم التوراة فلما أتوا على صفة النبي ﷺ أمسكوا وفي ناحيتها رجل مريض فقال النبي ﷺ ما لكم أمسكتم قال المريض إنهم أتوا على صفة نبي فأمسكوا ثم جاء المريض يحبو حتى أخذ التوراة فقرأ حتى أتى على صفة النبي ﷺ وأمته فقال هذه صفتك وصفة أمتك أشهد أن لا إله إلا الله وأنك رسول الله ثم مات فقال النبي ﷺ لأصحابه لوا أخاكم
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Its isnad is daif, because Abu Ubayda did not hear from his father. The hadith is found in Majma al-Zawaid 8:231, where it is said, "Ahmad and Tabarani narrated it, and in it is Ata bin Saaib, who became confused in his memory." So he set aside its real defect, the disconnection, and instead faulted it with something that does not hold, because Hammad bin Salama heard from Ata before his confusion, according to the more correct view.In manuscript ح it reads, "and behold, he was a Jew," which is an error, because what is meant is that he found some of the Jews. This has been corrected based on manuscript ك and Majma al-Zawaid.As for his statement, "Take charge of your brother," it is an imperative from the verb waliya-yali, meaning he was instructing them to take charge of his affairs, washing him, praying over him, and burying him, since he had died a Muslim.