Volume 8, Book 73, Number 235:
Narrated Abu Musa:
That he was in the company of the Prophet in one of the gardens of Medina and in the hand of the
Prophet there was a stick, and he was striking (slowly) the water and the mud with it. A man came
(at the gate of the garden) and asked permission to enter. The Prophet said, “Open the gate for him
and give him the glad tidings of entering Paradise. “I went, and behold! It was Abu Bakr. So I opened
the gate for him and informed him of the glad tidings of entering Paradise. Then another man came
and asked permission to enter. The Prophet said, “Open the gate for him and give him the glad tid –
ings of entering Paradise.” Behold! It was ‘Umar. So I opened the gate for him and gave him the glad
tidings of entering Paradise. Then another man came and asked permission to enter.
The Prophet was sitting in a leaning posture, so he sat up and said, “Open the gate for him and
give him the glad tidings of entering Paradise with a calamity which will befall him or which will
take place.” I went, and behold ! It was Uthman. So I opened the gate for him and gave him the glad
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tidings of entering Paradise and also informed him of what the Prophet had said (about a calamity).
‘Uthman said, “Allah Alone Whose Help I seek (against that calamity).