The handkerchiefs of Saʿd ibn Muʿādh in Paradise are better than this." (1)

In this chapter, there is also a narration from Anas.

This hadith is ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ.

4183 — Maḥmūd ibn Ghaylān narrated to us, saying: ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated to us, saying: Ibn Jurayj informed us, saying: Abū al-Zubayr informed me that he heard Jābir ibn ʿAbd Allāh say: I heard the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, say while the funeral bier of Saʿd ibn Muʿādh was before them: "The Throne of the Most Merciful trembled for him." (2)

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(1) Its chain of transmission is ṣaḥīḥ. It was also recorded by al-Bukhārī (3249), Muslim (2468), Ibn Mājah (157), and al-Nasāʾī in al-Kubrā (8221). It is in al-Musnad (18544) and (18668), and Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān (7035).

His saying: "The handkerchiefs of Saʿd" — as if he feared that they would desire the world, so he made clear to them that the Hereafter is better than this world, such that even the handkerchief prepared for wiping away filth in the Hereafter is better than a garment that the rulers have prepared for wearing in this world. So desire the Hereafter, not this world. And Allah Most High knows best. This was said by al-Sindī in his Ḥāshiyah on al-Musnad.

(2) A ṣaḥīḥ hadith. It was also recorded by al-Bukhārī (3803), Muslim (2466), Ibn Mājah (158), and al-Nasāʾī in al-Kubrā (8224). It is in al-Musnad (14153), and Ṣaḥīḥ Ibn Ḥibbān (7029).

Al-Baghawī said in Sharḥ al-Sunnah 14/180: His saying "trembled" (ihtazza), i.e., it was delighted by his soul when it was ascended with it. It was said: by "trembling" he meant joy and gladness, and its meaning is that the bearers of the Throne rejoiced at the arrival of his soul, so the Throne was attributed with what its bearers did, like his saying, peace be upon him: "This is a mountain that loves us and we love it," i.e., its people.

I say (the speaker is al-Baghawī): The better course is to take it at its apparent meaning, and likewise his saying, peace be upon him =