We came to Ibn Umar and sat at his door waiting to be granted permission to enter, but the permission was slow in coming. So I got up and went to a hole in the door and began peering through it. He noticed me doing this. When he eventually permitted us to enter, we sat down, and he asked, "Which of you was peering into my house just now?"I said, "I was."He said, "By what right did you consider it permissible to peer into my house?"I replied, "The permission was slow in coming, so I looked. I did not mean any harm by it."Then they asked him about various matters, and he said, I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, "Islam is built upon five things, the testimony that there is no god but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, establishing the prayer, giving the zakat, pilgrimage to the House, and fasting Ramadan."I said, "Abu Abdul-Rahman, what do you say about jihad?"He said, "Whoever strives in jihad strives only for his own benefit."
حدثنا أبو النضر حدثنا أبو عقيل عن بركة بن يعلى التيمي
أتينا ابن عمر فجلسنا ببابه ليؤذن لنا فأبطأ علينا الإذن قال فقمت إلى جحر في الباب فجعلت أطلع فيه ففطن بي فلما أذن لنا جلسنا فقال أيكم اطلع آنفا في داري قال قلت أنا قال بأي شيء استحللت أن تطلع في داري قال قلت أبطأ علينا الإذن فنظرت فلم أتعمد ذلك قال ثم سألوه عن أشياء فقال سمعت رسول الله ﷺ يقول بني الإسلام على خمس شهادة أن لا إله إلا الله وأن محمدا رسول الله ﷺ وإقام الصلاة وإيتاء الزكاة وحج البيت وصيام رمضان قلت يا أبا عبد الرحمن ما تقول في الجهاد قال من جاهد فإنما يجاهد لنفسه
Its chain of transmission is daif. Baraka bin Yaala Taymi is majhul al-hal (of unknown status). He is given a biographical entry in Tajil, page 50, under the name Baraka bin Yaala Tamimi. Husayni said, following Dhahabi, "Unknown." Then Ibn Hajar said, "I did not find any mention of him in Bukhari, nor among his followers such as Ibn Abu Hatim, Ibn Hibban, Aqeeli, and Ibn Adi, nor in any other books of criticism and validation of narrators. But I did find mention of him in Kuna by Hakim Abu Ahmad, in the biographical entry of his teacher Abu Suwayd, which he quoted from Kuna by Bukhari, from the narration of Waki from Baraka bin Yaala Taymi, so it appears there, while what is in the Musnad is Tamimi. Perhaps one of the two forms is a corruption of the other. From these two sources we learn that Baraka has another narrator besides Abu Aqeel, namely Waki, which removes the uncertainty about his identity." He is also given an entry in Lisan Mizan, 9:2, where it says, "But knowledge of his condition still remains lacking."I myself likewise did not find a biographical entry for this Baraka in Tarikh al-Kabir by Bukhari, nor did I find an entry for his teacher Abu Suwayd in Kuna by Bukhari either. So I do not know whether there is an omission in this passage, or whether Hakim Abu Ahmad made an error. As for Hafiz's statement that the version in the Musnad reads Tamimi, perhaps the copy of the Musnad that reached him and reached Hafiz Husayni was corrupted at this point, for what appears in the three original manuscripts in my possession is Taymi, just as Hakim Abu Ahmad named him.Abu Suwayd Abdi, in Tajil, page 493, narrated from Ibn Umar the hadith "Islam is built on five." Baraka bin Yaala Tamimi narrated from him. Hakim Abu Ahmad listed him among those whose names are unknown, and he quoted from Bukhari, via the route of Waki from Baraka from him, that he said, "We were at the door of [Ibn] Umar," and then related the story, referring to this hadith. But in Tajil it reads "Umar," which is a copying or printing error, and the correct reading is clearly "Ibn Umar."This hadith appears in Majma al-Zawaid, 8:44, where it begins, "And from Abu Suwayd Abdi, who said, We came to Ibn Umar," and so on, abridging it by omitting the part attributed directly to the Prophet, "Islam is built on five." Haythami then said, "Ahmad narrated it, and Abu Aswad and Baraka bin Yaala Tamimi, I do not know either of them." It appears clear that his statement "Abu Aswad" is a slip or printing error, and the correct reading is "Abu Suwayd."The origin of the hadith "Islam is built on five" is firmly established in Sahihayn and elsewhere through the narration of Ikrima bin Khalid from Ibn Umar, found in Bukhari, 1:46–47, Muslim, 1:20, and the Musnad, 63001. Ahmad and Muslim add in their versions that a man said to Abdullah bin Umar, "Will you not go out and fight?" and he answered him with this. Ahmad, 6015, and Muslim also narrated it via the route of Asim bin Muhammad bin Zayd from his father from Ibn Umar, without the question.This hadith has already appeared earlier, number 4798, with another chain that has a break in it, where we explained how to connect it. At its end, a man said to him, "And what about jihad in the path of Allah?" Ibn Umar said, "Jihad is good." Abu Naeem narrated in Hilya, 3:62, via the route of Harith bin Yazid Ukayli from Abu Waail, that a man said to Abdullah bin Umar, "You only perform hajj and do not go out to fight?" So he answered him with the hadith attributed to the Prophet.For all these reasons, Hafiz said in Fath al-Bari, "He did not mention jihad because it is a collective obligation, not individually required except in certain circumstances. This is why Ibn Umar made it his answer to the questioner." And in the version of Abdul-Razzaq, it adds at the end, "And jihad is among the good deeds."Thus it is established, from the sum of these narrations, that the narration of Baraka Taymi found here has a basis, and even though his status is unknown, this does not render him utterly daif. Hafiz mentioned in Fath al-Bari, in support of Muslim's version, that the name of the man who asked the question was Hakeem, as reported by Bayhaqi, though I do not know the source from which Bayhaqi took this. However, I believe that the narration in the Musnad here indicates that the questioner was Abu Suwayd Abdi. This does not, however, rule out the possibility that there was another questioner as well.