A Muslim man and a Jewish man were trading insults. The Muslim said, by way of an oath, "By the One who chose Muhammad above all the worlds!"The Jew responded, "By the One who chose Musa above all the worlds!"At that, the Muslim raised his hand and slapped the Jew. The Jew then went to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and informed him of what had happened between him and the Muslim.The Prophet ﷺ said, "Do not give me preference over Musa, for people will fall unconscious on the Day of Resurrection, and I will be the first to recover. Then I will see Musa gripping the side of the Throne. I do not know whether he was among those who fell unconscious and recovered before me, or whether he was among those whom Allah exempted."
استتب رجل من المسلمين، ورجل من اليهود فقال المسلم: والذي اصطفى محمدا على العالمين في قسم يقسم به فقال اليهودي: والذي اصطفى موسى على العالمين فرفع المسلم يده عند ذلك فلطم اليهودي، فذهب اليهودي إلى رسول الله ﷺ فأخبره بالذي كان من أمره وأمر المسلم فقال النبي ﷺ: لا تخيروني على موسى، فإن الناس يصعقون يوم القيامة، فأكون أول من يفيق، فإذا موسى باطش بجانب العرش، فلا أدري أكان فيمن صعق فأفاق قبلي، أو كان ممن استثنى الله.
Bukhari narrated it in Tawhid (7472) and Muslim in Fadail (2373/160), both from the hadith of Ibrahim, from Ibn Shihab, from Abu Salama bin Abdul-Rahman and Abdul-Rahman bin Aaraj, from Abu Hurairah, and he related the hadith, their wording being identical.As for what was narrated from Abu Masud, who said, "A man came to the Prophet ﷺ and spoke to him, and he began trembling all over, so he said, 'Take it easy, for I am not a king, I am only the son of a woman who eats dried meat,'" this is defective. Ibn Majah narrated it (3312) from Ismail bin Asad, who said Jafar bin Awn narrated to us, who said Ismail bin Abu Khalid narrated to us, from Qays bin Abu Hazim, from Abu Masud, and he related it.Hakim narrated it (3/47–48) by this route and graded it sahih according to the criterion of the two Shaykhs. So he said! But Ismail bin Asad, although trustworthy, is someone from whom the two Shaykhs did not report anything. Busiri also graded its chain sahih in Misbah Zujaja (3/84).I say, that would be so, were it not that Ismail bin Asad was contradicted in his chain, for he alone made it continuous, as Ibn Majah indicated when he said following the hadith, "Ismail alone made it continuous." Muhammad bin Abdul-Wahhab bin Habib Nisaburi, one of the trustworthy narrators, contradicted him, narrating it from Jafar bin Awn with his chain as a mursal report, not mentioning Abu Masud in it.Bayhaqi narrated it by his route in Dalail Nubuwwah (5/69) and said following it, "This is mursal, and it is the preserved version." Likewise, a group of trustworthy narrators corroborated Jafar bin Awn in narrating it as mursal, among them Yahya bin Saeed Qattan, whom Daraqutni narrated from by his route in Ilal (6/195), and Yazid bin Harun, and Ibn Numayr, whom Ibn Saad narrated from in Tabaqat (1/23).Abbad bin Awwam contradicted all of them, saying, from Ismail bin Abu Khalid, from Qays bin Abu Hazim, from Jareer bin Abdullah, and he related it similarly, adding that Jareer bin Abdullah Bajali then recited, "And you are not over them a tyrant, so remind by the Quran whoever fears My threat" [Qaf 50:45]. Hakim narrated it (2/466) and said, "Sahih according to the criterion of the two Shaykhs."So he said, without paying attention to his contradicting the trustworthy narrators among the companions of Ismail bin Abu Khalid. That is why, when Daraqutni mentioned in Ilal those who made it part of the narrations of Jareer Bajali or part of the musnad of Abu Masud, he said, "Both are mistaken, and the correct view is that it comes from Ismail, from Qays, as a mursal report from the Prophet ﷺ." End of quote.