He heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, "Whoever among my community has two children who have preceded him in death, Allah will admit him to Paradise through them."Ayesha asked, "What about one from your community who has only one such child?"He replied, "The same applies to one who has only one, you who are guided to the right answer."She asked, "And what about one from your community who has none?"He said, "Then I am the one who has gone ahead for my community. They will never suffer a loss like losing me."
أنه سمع رسول الله ﷺ يقول: من كان له فرطان من أمتي أدخله الله بهما الجنة. فقالت عائشة: فمن كان له فرط من أمتك؟ قال: ومن كان له فرط يا موفقة. قالت: فمن لم يكن له فرط من أمتك؟ قال: فأنا فرط أمتي، لن يصابوا بمثلي.
Tirmidhi (1062) narrated it from Nasr bin Ali Jahdami and Ziyad bin Yahya Basri, who both said, Abd Rabbih bin Bariq Hanafi told us, he said, I heard my grandfather, my mother's father, Simak bin Walid Hanafi, narrating that he heard Ibn Abbas narrating that he heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, and then he related the hadith. Imam Ahmad (3098) also narrated it through the route of Abd Rabbih bin Bariq with the same chain, similarly.Tirmidhi said, "Hasan gharib, we do not know it except through the hadith of Abd Rabbih bin Bariq, and more than one of the imams have narrated from him." He also said, "Simak bin Walid is Abu Zumayl Hanafi."I say, it is as he said, for its chain is hasan on account of what has been said about Abd Rabbih bin Bariq Hanafi. Abu Hatim deemed him reliable. Ahmad said, "I see no harm in him." Ibn Hibban mentioned him in Thiqat. Tirmidhi graded his hadith hasan, though Ibn Main said of him, "He is nothing."The conclusion is that the hadith of someone like him is graded hasan.As for his saying, "whoever has had a fart," meaning one child, this is supported by the previously mentioned hadith of Abu Hurairah, "when He takes his chosen one from the people of this world," meaning one or more. This refutes those who claimed that the hadith, "whoever loses one child will enter Paradise," is not sahih.This is also what Ibn Hajar (3/119) concluded, after quoting his statement, "None of these routes contains anything fit to be used as evidence. Rather, in the narration of Sharik, whose chain the author mentioned in passing as will come later, it occurs without specifying a number."