Ma'dan bin Abi Talhah (may Allah be pleased with him) reports that once Abu Darda (may Allah be pleased with him) asked me, "Where do you reside?" I replied, "In a village behind Hims." He said, "I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: 'In any village where there are three men and neither the call to prayer nor the establishment of prayer is observed, Satan overcomes them. Therefore, adhere to the congregation of Muslims, for the wolf devours the solitary sheep.'"

The previous hadith is also narrated through this second chain of transmission.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Darda (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Whoever memorizes the first ten verses of Surah Al-Kahf will be protected from the trial of the Dajjal.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Darda (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) once offered the sacrifice of two castrated rams of six months.

It is narrated from Hazrat Abu Darda (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) once offered the sacrifice of two castrated rams of six months.

Qais bin Kathir (may Allah have mercy on him) says that a man from Madinah Munawwarah came to Hazrat Abu Darda (may Allah be pleased with him) in Damascus. He asked the visitor, "Brother! What brings you here?" He replied, "To learn a hadith about which I have come to know that you narrate it from the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)." He asked, "Have you not come for any trade?" He said, "No." He asked, "For any other work?" He said, "No." He asked, "Have you come only to seek this hadith?" He said, "Yes." He said, "I heard the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) say: Whoever sets out on a path to seek knowledge, Allah makes the path to Paradise easy for him, and the angels spread their wings in pleasure for the seeker of knowledge, and all the creatures in the heavens and the earth pray for forgiveness for the scholar. The superiority of the scholar over the worshipper is like the superiority of the moon over the rest of the stars. Indeed, the scholars are the heirs of the Prophets, and the Prophets do not leave behind dinars or dirhams as inheritance, but they leave behind knowledge. So whoever acquires it, has acquired a great share."

The previous hadith is also narrated through this second chain of transmission.

A man was ordered by his mother or father or both to divorce his wife (he refused and) said that if he divorced his wife, it would be obligatory upon him to free one hundred slaves. Then that man came to Hazrat Abu Darda (may Allah be pleased with him) while he was performing a long forenoon prayer, then he prayed between Zuhr and Asr, then that person asked him about this issue. He replied, "Fulfill your vow (free one hundred slaves) and obey your parents, because I heard the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) say: 'The father is the middle gate of Paradise; now it is up to you whether you protect it or leave it.'"

Abu Habibah (may Allah have mercy on him) says that a man, at the time of his death, made a bequest to spend some of his wealth in the way of Allah. Hazrat Abu Darda (may Allah be pleased with him) was asked about this, so he narrated this hadith from the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him): Whoever, at the time of his death, frees a slave or gives charity, his example is like that of a person who gives away what is left over after he has quenched his own thirst.

Abu Habibah (may Allah have mercy on him) says that a man, at the time of his death, made a bequest to spend some dinars from his wealth in the way of Allah. Hazrat Abu Darda (may Allah be pleased with him) was asked about this, so he narrated this hadith from the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him): Whoever, at the time of death, frees a slave or gives charity, his example is like that of a person who gives away what is left over after he has quenched his own thirst.