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3846. Abū Hurairah narrated: "We camped with the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ at a place, and the people began passing by. The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ would say: 'Who is this, O Abū Hurairah?' So I would say: 'So-and-so.' So he would say: 'What an excellent slave of Allāh this is.' And he would say: 'Who is this?' So I would say: 'So-and-so.' So he would say: 'What a bad slave of Allāh this is.' Until Khālid bin Al-Walīd passed, so he said: 'Who is this?' So I said: 'This is Khālid bin Al-Walīd.' He said: 'What an excellent slave of Allāh is Khālid bin Al-Walīd, a sword from among the swords of Allāh.'" (Hasan)
[Abū 'Eisā said:] This Hadīth is [Hasan] Gharīb. We do not know of Zaid bin Aslam (a narrator) hearing from Abū Hurairah, and this is a Mursal Hadīth in my view.
[He said:] There is something on this topic from Abū Bakr Aṣ-Ṣiddīq, may Allāh be pleased with him.
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Maybe at that time, the Prophet ﷺ was inside the tent and he asked about the people who passed by the tent, and expressed his opinion about them. He remarked about Khālid bin Al-Walīd as a nice person and named him 'the Sword' against the enemies of Allāh ﷻ. This is a great honor for Khālid bin Al-Walīd.
