The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The example of this nation," or he said, "of my nation, alongside the Jews and the Christians, is like a man who asked, 'Who will work for me from morning until midday for one qirat?' The Jews said, 'We will,' and they did so. Then he asked, 'Who will work for me from midday until the afternoon prayer for one qirat?' The Christians said, 'We will,' and they worked. Then you, the Muslims, work from the afternoon prayer until nightfall for two qirats. So the Jews and Christians grew angry and said, 'We worked more and were given less reward.' He asked, 'Have I wronged you in any of your wages?' They said, 'No.' He said, 'That is my bounty, which I bestow upon whomever I wish.'"
حدثنا مؤمل حدثنا سفيان عن عبد الله بن دينار سمعت
قال رسول الله ﷺ مثل هذه الأمة أو قال أمتي ومثل اليهود والنصارى كمثل رجل قال من يعمل لي من غدوة إلى نصف النهار على قيراط قالت اليهود نحن ففعلوا فقال فمن يعمل لي من نصف النهار إلى العصر على قيراط قالت النصارى نحن فعملوا وأنتم المسلمون تعملون من صلاة العصر إلى الليل على قيراطين فغضبت اليهود والنصارى فقالوا نحن أكثر عملا وأقل أجرا فقال هل ظلمتكم من أجركم شيئا قالوا لا قال فذاك فضلي أوتيه من أشاء
Its isnad is sahih, and it is a repetition of 4508 with similar wording. Bukhari related it in 2:32–33 and 13:377, 425 at greater length, through Zuhri from Salim from his father. He also related it in 4:367 through Ayub from Nafi, and in 6:361 through Layth from Nafi, and in 4:368 through Malik from Abdullah bin Dinar, and in 9:59 through Thawri from Ibn Dinar, all three from Ibn Umar. Muslim and Tirmidhi also related it, as mentioned in Qastallani 1:407.Ghudwah, with the ghayn vocalized with damma and the dal unvocalized, means early morning, the time between the dawn prayer and sunrise. It is treated as indeclinable. It is said in Lisan, "One says, I came to him at ghudwah, without full declension, because it is definite like sahar." He then reports that some regard it as indefinite and decline it fully, but here it is definite, because it refers to the early morning of a specific day."Zalamtukum" appears in one manuscript, in the margin of M, as "zalamtum."