And Ḥammād ibn Salamah, from Abū Ghālib, who said:

Abū Umāmah saw heads set up on the steps of Damascus, and Abū Umāmah said: "Dogs of the Fire are the worst of those slain beneath the canopy of heaven; the best of those slain are those whom they killed."(1) Then he recited: {On the Day when faces will be whitened and faces will be blackened} to the end of the verse [Āl ʿImrān: 106]. I said to Abū Umāmah: "Did you hear this from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him?" He said: "Had I not heard it but once, or twice, or three times, or four—until he counted seven—I would not have related it to you."(2)

This is a good (ḥasan) ḥadīth.

Abū Ghālib is said to be named Ḥazawwar, and Abū Umāmah al-Bāhilī is named Ṣudayy ibn ʿAjlān.

3246 — ʿAbd ibn Ḥumayd narrated to us, saying: ʿAbd al-Razzāq informed us, from Maʿmar, from Bahz ibn Ḥakīm, from his father, from his grandfather, that he heard the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, say regarding the saying of Allah the Exalted: {You were the best}--------------------------------------------

(1) The wording of Aḥmad in the second narration: "And the best of those slain beneath the canopy of heaven are those whom these killed."
(2) A sound (ṣaḥīḥ) ḥadīth, and this chain is good (ḥasan) in follow-up narrations; Abū Ghālib is weak but is considered for corroboration. Sayyār ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Umawī followed him in Aḥmad's narration, and Shaddād ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Dimashqī in Ibn Khuzaymah's "al-Jihād," as in "Iṭḥāf al-Maharah" 6/229, and al-Ḥākim 2/149 and 149–150.
It was also recorded by Ibn Mājah (176). It is in "Musnad Aḥmad" (22151) and (22183).
For the jurisprudence of the ḥadīth, see our commentary on the "Musnad" (22151).