When the surah "When the help of Allah comes, and the victory" [Nasr 110:1] was revealed, the Prophet ﷺ said, "The people of Yemen have come to you. They are the most tender-hearted. Faith is Yemeni, understanding is Yemeni, and wisdom is Yemeni."
حدثنا عبد الرزاق أخبرنا هشام بن حسان عن محمد قال سمعت
لما نزلت إذا جاء نصر الله والفتح قال النبي ﷺ أتاكم أهل اليمن هم أرق قلوبا الإيمان يمان الفقه يمان الحكمة يمانية
Its isnad is sahih. Muhammad is Ibn Sirin. It appears in Tafsir Abdul-Razzaq, in the tafsir of Surah Nasr, with this isnad. Ibn Kathir likewise transmitted it in Jami al-Masanid, 371-372, from this place in the Musnad.It has already passed at 7616, from Abdul-Razzaq, from Maamar, from Ayub, from Ibn Sirin, from Abu Hurairah, without mentioning the revelation of the surah. Abdul-Razzaq likewise mentioned it, following this hadith, from Maamar, from Ayub, with the same chain, but he did not give its wording, only saying, "similar to it," except that Maamar did not say, "when it was revealed, "When the help of Allah comes" [Nasr 110:1]." So this hadith here, with this addition, is considered among the additional narrations, but Haythami did not mention it. Instead, he mentioned a hadith of Ibn Abbas on that subject, reference to which will come, Allah willing.I did not find this hadith of Abu Hurairah anywhere else among the references, except in Durr Manthur, 6:408, where he attributed it solely to Ibn Mardawayh! This is a very far-fetched attribution, when it was right in front of him in Tafsir Abdul-Razzaq and Musnad Ahmad. As for Hafiz bin Kathir, although he mentioned it in Jami al-Masanid, he overlooked mentioning it in his tafsir. Instead, on the same subject, at 323-324, he mentioned a hadith of Ibn Abbas, narrated by Tabari in his Tafsir, 30:215 [Bulaq edition].The hadith of Ibn Abbas is also sahih. Ibn Hibban narrated it in his Sahih (part 3), on page 199 of the Ihsan manuscript, and Haythami mentioned it in Majma al-Zawaid, 10:55, citing only the narration of Bazzar. Hafiz [Ibn Hajar] referred to it in Fath al-Bari, page 77, meaning the hadith of Ibn Abbas, and he too attributed it to Bazzar. So he failed, first, to attribute it to Sahih Ibn Hibban, and he failed, second, to mention this hadith of Abu Hurairah, which is sahih according to the standard of the two sheikhs, and is clearer than the hadith of Ibn Abbas, and closer to it, being found in Tafsir Abdul-Razzaq and the Musnad. The praise of the people of Yemen mentioned here has already come up several times, at 7201, 7426, 7496, 7639.As for his saying, "Fiqh is Yemeni, wisdom is Yemeni," it is established here without the conjunction "and" in either instance, which matches what is in Tafsir Abdul-Razzaq. It is established with "and" in both instances in [manuscript] M and in Jami al-Masanid. It is established with "and" only before "wisdom" in [manuscript] K. We have preferred what we have established here because it matches Tafsir Abdul-Razzaq.