Jami' at-Tirmidhi
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1686
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ بَشَّارٍ، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ، وَابْنُ أَبِي عَدِيٍّ، وَأَبُو دَاوُدَ قَالُوا حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ، قَالَ كَانَ فَزَعٌ بِالْمَدِينَةِ فَاسْتَعَارَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم فَرَسًا لَنَا يُقَالُ لَهُ مَنْدُوبٌ فَقَالَ " مَا رَأَيْنَا مِنْ فَزَعٍ وَإِنْ وَجَدْنَاهُ لَبَحْرًا " . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ صَحِيحٌ .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Muhammad ibn Bashshar, Muhammad ibn Jafar, Ibn Abi Adi, and Abu Dawud reported to us, saying: Shu bah reported to us from Qatadah, from Anas ibn Malik, who said: There was an alarm in Madinah, so the Messenger of Allah borrowed a horse of ours called Mandub. He said: We saw no cause for alarm, and indeed found him to be a sea.
Abu Isa said: This hadith is hasan sahih.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
As in the related report, the Arabic uses the image ‘a sea’ without explicitly stating that it means swift.