Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2726
حَدَّثَنَا مَحْمُودُ بْنُ غَيْلاَنَ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو دَاوُدَ، حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ أَبِي إِسْحَاقَ، عَنِ الْبَرَاءِ، وَلَمْ يَسْمَعْهُ مِنْهُ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم مَرَّ بِنَاسٍ مِنَ الأَنْصَارِ وَهُمْ جُلُوسٌ فِي الطَّرِيقِ فَقَالَ " إِنْ كُنْتُمْ لاَ بُدَّ فَاعِلِينَ فَرُدُّوا السَّلاَمَ وَأَعِينُوا الْمَظْلُومَ وَاهْدُوا السَّبِيلَ " . وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ وَأَبِي شُرَيْحٍ الْخُزَاعِيِّ . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Al-Bara’ reported—though Abu Ishaq did not hear this directly from him—that Allah’s Messenger passed some Ansar sitting along the road and said: ‘If you must sit there, then return greetings of peace, help the oppressed, and guide the wayfarer.’
There are reports on this topic from Abu Hurayrah and Abu Shurayh al-Khuza‘i. Abu ‘Isa said: This is a hasan gharib hadith.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The chain explicitly notes that Abu Ishaq did not hear this report directly from al-Bara’. The English witness presents the chain wording awkwardly; the interruption is retained here.