English translation
3695. Narrated Abū Mūsā' رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ: The Prophet ﷺ entered a garden and ordered me to guard its gate. A man came and asked permission to enter. The Prophet ﷺ said, "Admit him and give him the glad tidings of entering Paradise." Behold! It was Abū Bakr. Another man came and asked the permission to enter. The Prophet ﷺ said, "Admit him and give him the glad tidings of entering Paradise." Behold! It was 'Umar. Then another man came, asking the permission to enter. The Prophet ﷺ kept silent for a short while and then said, "Admit him and give him the glad tidings of entering Paradise with a calamity which will befall him." Behold! It was 'Uthmān bin 'Affān. ('Āsim, in another narration said that the Prophet ﷺ was sitting in a place where there was water, and he was uncovering both his knees or his knee, and when 'Uthmān entered, he covered them).
