Sunan an-Nasa'i 465

Abu Dawud informed us; he said: Harun—that is, Ibn Isma‘il al-Khazzaz—narrated to us; he said: Hammam narrated to us, from Qatadah, from al-Hasan, from Hurayth ibn Qabisah, who said: I came to Madinah and said: “O Allah, make it easy for me to find a righteous companion.” I sat with Abu Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, and said: “I asked Allah, Mighty and Exalted, to make it easy for me to find a righteous companion. Tell me a hadith that you heard from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, so that perhaps Allah will benefit me through it.” He said: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: “The first thing for which a servant will be called to account is his prayer. If it is sound, he has succeeded and prospered; if it is unsound, he has failed and lost.” Hammam said: “I do not know whether this is Qatadah’s words or part of the narration.” [The narration continues:] “If anything is lacking from his obligatory prayer, He will say: ‘Look: does My servant have any voluntary prayers, so that what was lacking from the obligatory prayer may be completed by them?’ Then the rest of his deeds will be treated in the same way.” Abu al-‘Awwam differed from him.