Arabic (Original)
حَدَّثَنَا زَكَرِيَّا بْنُ عَدِيٍّ أَنَا بَقِيَّةُ عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ عُمَرَ الْأَنْصَارِيِّ عَنْ شَيْخٍ يُكَنَّى أَبَا عَبْدِ الصَّمَدِ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أُمَّ الدَّرْدَاءِ تَقُولُ كَانَ أَبُو الدَّرْدَاءِ إِذَا حَدَّثَ حَدِيثًا تَبَسَّمَ فَقُلْتُ لَا يَقُولُ النَّاسُ إِنَّكَ أَيْ أَحْمَقُ فَقَالَ مَا رَأَيْتُ أَوْ مَا سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يُحَدِّثُ حَدِيثًا إِلَّا تَبَسَّمَ.
English Translation
Zakariyya ibn Adi told us: Baqiyyah informed us, from Habib ibn Umar al-Ansari, from a shaykh known as Abu Abd al-Samad, who said: I heard Umm al-Darda say: 'Whenever Abu al-Darda narrated a hadith, he would smile.' So I said to him: 'Will people not say you are, that is, foolish?' He said: 'I never saw' - or 'never heard' - 'the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, narrate a hadith except that he smiled.'