The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Do you know who will be the first of Allah's creation to enter Paradise?"They said, "Allah and His Messenger know best."He said, "The first of Allah's creation to enter Paradise are the poor and the emigrants, those by whom the frontiers are guarded and through whom calamities are warded off. One of them dies with his need still locked in his chest, unable to fulfill it. Then Allah will say to whichever of His angels He wishes, 'Go to them and greet them.'The angels will say, 'We are the dwellers of Your heaven and the choicest of Your creation. Do You command us to go to these people and greet them?'He will say, 'They were servants who worshipped Me and associated nothing with Me. The frontiers were guarded by them and calamities were warded off through them, and one of them would die with his need still locked in his chest, unable to fulfill it.'So the angels will come to them at that time, entering upon them from every gate, saying, 'Peace be upon you for what you patiently endured. And excellent is the final home.' [Rad 13:24]"
حدثنا أبو عبد الرحمن حدثني سعيد بن أبي أيوب حدثني معروف بن سويد الجذامي عن أبي عشانة المعافري
عن رسول الله ﷺ أنه قال هل تدرون أول من يدخل الجنة من خلق الله قالوا الله ورسوله أعلم قال أول من يدخل الجنة من خلق الله الفقراء والمهاجرون الذين تسد بهم الثغور ويتقى بهم المكاره ويموت أحدهم وحاجته في صدره لا يستطيع لها قضاء فيقول الله عز وجل لمن يشاء من ملائكته ائتوهم فحيوهم فتقول الملائكة نحن سكان سمائك وخيرتك من خلقك أفتأمرنا أن نأتي هؤلاء فنسلم عليهم قال إنهم كانوا عبادا يعبدوني لا يشركون بي شيئا وتسد بهم الثغور ويتقى بهم المكاره ويموت أحدهم وحاجته في صدره لا يستطيع لها قضاء قال فتأتيهم الملائكة عند ذلك فيدخلون عليهم من كل باب {سلام عليكم بما صبرتم فنعم عقبى الدار}
Its isnad is sahih. Maruf bin Suwayd Judhami Misri is trustworthy. Ibn Hibban mentioned him among the trustworthy narrators, and Bukhari gave his biography in Kabir 4/1/414.Judhami is spelled with a damma on the jeem and a light (unshaddad) dhal, a relation to Judham, a tribe from Yemen, and they were the first Arabs to settle in Egypt, when they came with Amr bin As.Abu Ashanah Maafiri is Hayy bin Yumn bin Hujayl Misri, a trustworthy tabii. He was deemed trustworthy by Ahmad, Ibn Main, and others. Hafiz said in Tahdheeb, Ibn Hibban mentioned him among the trustworthy narrators, and when he included his hadith in his Sahih, he said of him, one of the trustworthy people of Egypt. Yaqub bin Sufyan also deemed him trustworthy, and Bukhari gave his biography in Kabir 2/1/110, as did Ibn Saad in Tabaqat 7/2/201.Ashanah is spelled with a damma on the ayn and a shaddad shin with a fatha, as Hafiz specified in Taqrib. Hayy is spelled with a fatha on the haa and a shaddad yaa. Yumn is spelled with a damma on the yaa, a sakin hamza, and a kasra on the meem.The hadith was narrated by Abu Naeem in Hilyah 1:347, by way of Abu Abdul-Rahman Muqri, with this isnad, in similar form but shorter. Ibn Kathir quoted it in Tafsir 4:519 from this very passage of the Musnad. Haythami mentioned it in Majma al-Zawaid 10:259, and said, Ahmad, Bazzar, and Tabarani narrated it, and added, after his words "and the inhabitants of Your heavens", "and You will admit them to Paradise before us", and its narrators are trustworthy. See the hadith following this one, for it contains further sourcing.Regarding his words "the poor and the migrants", the waw is present in H, and present with correction in the body and margin of M, though it has been removed in the places we indicated in the sourcing.