Chapter: The Virtues Of Abu Ubaidah Bin Al-Jarrah (RA)

Hadith 2419 Part A

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Anas reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

For every Umma there is a man of trust and the man of trust of this Umma is Abu 'Ubaida b. Jarrah.

Hadith 2419 Part B

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Anas reported that the people of Yemen came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and said

Send with us a person who should teach us Sunnah and al-Islam, whereupon he (the Holy Prophet) caught hold of the hand of Ubaida and said: He is a man of trust of this Umma.

Hadith 2420 Part A

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Hudhaifa reported that the people of Najran came to Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and said

Allah's Messenger, send along with us a man of trust; whereupon he said: I would definitely send to you a man of trust, a man of trust in the true sense of the term. Thereupon his Companions looked up eagerly and he sent Abu Ubaida b. Jarrah.

Hadith 2420 Part B

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This hadith has been reported on the authority of Abu Ishaq with the same chain of transmitters.